Bluejay writes:
But, consider this: if we are allowing everybody the opportunity to reproduce, we are preventing natural selection from driving many "unfit" traits to extinction, which ultimately will result in more persisting diversity in our populations. So, maybe that's what Percy's source was saying.
In essense, we as the human species are commencing artificial selection on ourselves, much like we do when we selectively breed domesticated animals and plants to produce food and other resources that we need. Thus these artificially selected factors we place on ourselves overide the naturally selective processes which would naturally shape the genome of the human race.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.Dr. Carl Sagan