Thank you. Very sporting of you.
KSH
At 10:36 26/10/2010 -0400, you wrote:
Congratulations on your new book Keith.
REH
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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:21 AM
To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION
Subject: [Futurework] Back cover blurb
FWers might be interested in the back-cover blurb for my new book, A
Species in the Making. I might mention that further evidence for the
quickie route to speciation (see below) has accumulated since I wrote the
book a year ago.
Keith
"Mankind, like millions of other species in the past and the present, is
constantly evolving and faces the same fate as all the others. He will
either go extinct or he will speciate -- divide into two species.
Furthermore, as in almost all of the other 4,000 mammalian species, a
significant degree of evolutionary adaptation and consolidation of
specific attributes within the species is due to the female's selection of
the qualities she sees in the male she wishes to partner and have children
with.
Whether a species divides by the slow accumulation of mutations or whether
by a sudden event -- perhaps the random incursion of a new gene or genes
-- the possibility of the human species dividing, hitherto unthinkable, is
now being taken seriously by more than a few contemporary biologists. It
could happen via sociological divide or as a result, or opportunity, of
scientific research. Whichever the route, and whatever may be the
present-day religious, cultural or political attitudes to this
possibility, tolerance towards a new species will be irresistible sooner
or later if we are to retain our present high degree of scientific
curiosity. This will be especially so if a new hominim species promises to
be more able than its predecessor to survive in an increasingly complex
age and fast-changing job structure."
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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