Mankind Has Stopped Evolving
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Uploaded by bigthink on May 31, 2011
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There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn't mean we won't be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.
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@SilvrDragon52 Well, you shouldn't mix cultural and biological evolution. "The Fittest" biologically is defined as the one who reproduces best. Generally well off and educated people reproduce less than the poor and uneducated populace (that's on average true for all cultures and countries). Technically you are right about "change", but change that is not improvement relevant for survival usually goes extinct.
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Because there are no survival pressures in our environment any longer, does that mean we could evolve in a way as to remove the traits that gave us our edge against the environment in the first place (IE Intelligence, appose-able thumbs)?
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@WanderToKyozo Like what? What counter theory are you suggesting?
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@taneeshahmad the multiverse
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If you really think about it, he's kinda right. Because of our moral value, we do everything we can (well, kind-hearted people anyways) to keep other humans alive. We go out of our way to accommodate and save people that nature could have deemed unfit to survive. If so, then there will longer be a need to evolve to survive. It's no longer a survival of the fittest.
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I hope I will live long enough to see the day we can make pig grows wings. It'll be glorious.
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@Buntrabe You have a valid point. I'd like to hear Kaku's feedback.
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Evolution is never-ending. When this Earth reaches its end, due to whatever force wipes out the population of every living thing, humans will not be there to see it. Our ancestor, which will not be human, will observe it.
You cannot stop evolution, because everyone's environment is constantly changing.
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BLASPHEMY.
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@watsucht your whole theory has many many flaws
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I like how this is an intelligent reasonable argument and the comment section is just so full of stupid.
DysBassist 2 days ago 41
what about humans living in space at one point? I am sure they will experience gross evolution due to space condition.
KRSchannel 15 hours ago 5