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DevilsAdvocate
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Message 18 of 55 (490459)
12-04-2008 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Blue Jay
12-04-2008 8:31 PM


Re: Evolution by Personal Selection
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

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Message 24 of 55 (490493)
12-05-2008 5:48 AM
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12-05-2008 2:12 AM


fallaccop writes:
I stand by what I said. Evolution is alive and well, thank you. The fact that we have changed the enviroment to such an extent that old evolutionary pressures do not have the same impact that they used to have does not mean that evolution stops. New evolutionary trands will replace the old ones
I agree with you. A change in our genome is a change in our genome whether it is artificially induced by an outside intelligence i.e. artificial selection by humans or by naturally generated mutations guided by natural selective pressures i.e. sexual selection, dying off of weaker organisms, genetic drift, etc. Either way they are both part of the evolution of our species.

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

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