YKY> On 6/19/07, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The modern feature is that whole peoples have chosen to reproduce >> at half replacement level. In case you haven't thought about the >> implications of that, that means their genes, for example, are >> vanishing from the pool by a factor of 2 every 20 years or so. >> Won't take long before they are gone. I don't doubt there is a >> good element of K-strategy in human makeup, but evidently the >> K-strategy programming is a bit out of whack. >> >> I expect this was caused by our mental programming advancing much >> faster, at the cultural, meme, etc level, in the presence of >> language and printing presses etc, than evolution of the genome >> could keep up with. My guess is evolution will catch up and >> correct this in a generation or two, but in the meantime it is >> going to have substantial demographic effects.
YKY> "Evolution of the genome will catch up" is a very curious notion. YKY> Can you elaborate on this? The people who are motivated to have more babies will have more babies than the people not so motivated. The genes causing them to want to have more babies will increase in frequency in the gene pool. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
