Big Brother should make everyone have babies before they are 20 after which they are rendered impotent? Obviously my father was 120 when he sired me!
On Jul 21, 12:14 pm, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, that's a misleading title, but it'll do as a starting point. Humans have > altered the progression of Darwinian evolution because of our delineation of > sex and procreation, and yet we continue to use Darwinian terminology in the > discussion of psychosocial and biological evolution. > > 1. "Survival of the fittest" ONLY relates to procreation. Period. It does > not relate to physical fitness, longevity, comfortability of lifestyle, > attractiveness, intelligence, prowess, or wealth. It specifically relates to > the generational progression of genetic material via progeny. Therefore, > unlikely though it may seem... > > Single Mom of three in trailer park with three viable offspring > Bill Gates > > 2. While much focus is placed in our society on health as key to longevity, > longevity may actually be the antithesis to "fitness", in a Darwinian sense. > First, a shorter life cycle leads to faster progression of generations, > meaning in simple terms, faster evolution. This is why drosophilae are a > favorite of geneticists, since changes to the core structure of DNA/RNA can > be quickly (relatively speaking) tracked through several generations of > offspring. Second, the longer humans live, the more our DNA degrades, > leading to the predictably more common occurrencess of cancer of all types: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8460632?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezS... > > or for something a little simpler: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1944386?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezS... > > With humans living longer lives, and the growing western trend of > procreating later in life, an illusion of "fitness" is created and > maintained, while passing on degraded genetic material, the negative impact > of which won't be seen for more than a century due to the length of the > modern life cycle. > > Thoughts? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
