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Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:59:25 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Right. Or at least closer. What I'm getting at is that evolution is a
> natural process that produces changes in organisms in response to changes in
> environment (including the changes that occur in other organisms) but that
> we are now choosing, at least in part, what environmental factors to
> completely disregard. I am not saying that humanity will not change at all
> any more. I am just saying that barring a collapse in civilisation, our days
> of changing involuntarily are more or less over. (that doesn't mean we're at
> a dead end... well it sort of does but not in a BAD way)
I'll have to partially disagree. Humankind has done a lot to *lessen"
selection pressure on ourselves but we, to my knowledge, have not found
a way to eliminate an environmental factor (in the broad sense).
However, humans will continue to change involuntarily through another,
perhaps more important, factor in evolutionary change- Random Genetic
Drift.
-chris
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