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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:01:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > Ross Crawford wrote:
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> > > > 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"?
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> > 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".
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> 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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> > Do you have a reason to think that decreasing our species intelligence is the • right
> > way to go?
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> No.
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> Read the question again. I was questioning whether or not the notion of right &
> wrong[1] can be applied to evolution, I made no comment whether or not
> decreasing intelligence was right or wrong[1].
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> IMO, intelligence may help us overcome various individual events[2], but makes
> little (if any) difference to the overall evolution of a species.
Is it not our intelligence which separates from rest of the animals? Is that
not the key to our evolution, or do you think it is incidental?
Scott A
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> ROSCO
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> [1] as applied to the way our gene pool may be skewed
> [2] which may range from milliseconds to several generations, but that's still
> a needle in the haystack of evolution
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