> From: Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > Large populations: > > > > http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,644002,00.html > > The article talks about a biologist's theory that humans > in the West no longer have any reason to change through > natural selection. That may be true for now, but there's > no telling what may happen if humans ever colonize other > stars. The forces he describes have only held true for a > blink of evolutionary time. Things change, given enough > time...
By that time, humans will be so genetically engineered that it's really not feasable. A child's DNA will be completely checked, and any deviance will be 'fixed'. But this article just backs up my point that selection breaks down in large non-isolated populations.
