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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:44:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > > Ross Crawford wrote:
> > >
> > > > > This is an interesting point. It is a generaisation, but in the UK low
> > > > > income families tend to have more kids than higher earners. Many couples
> > > > > (married or otherwsie) decide to have only one or no kids at all. If we
> > > > > assume (again a generisation) that low income familes have lower levels of
> > > > > intelligence (measured by lower levels of educational attainment) is our
> > > > > gene pool geing skewed the wrong way?
> > > >
> > > > Is there a "wrong way"?
> > >
> > > I would think that most people with at least middling intelligence would tend
> > to
> > > agree that decreasing the overall intelligence level of our species is the "wrong
> > > way".
> >
> > That may be so, but I would think that most people who have a middling
> > understanding of evolution would agree that intelligence has little (if any)
> > effect on it.
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> Except to stop it. Which we are in the process of doing, and which was my
> original point!
We may, in the end, cause our own extinction, in which case I guess you could
say we're currently in the process of stopping our evolution, but I think it's
a pretty big stretch. As I've said before, I think humanity will eventually
become extinct anyway - so I guess we're witnessing our extinction.
ROSCO
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| (...) I understood Larry's point differently, in that optimistically we might never go extinct (technology propelling us beyond the earth, the solar system, the galaxy, the universe...), but in terms of biological evolution we're more or less at a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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