mike wilson wrote:
Bob Shell wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:12 PM, William Robb wrote:
A mutation that reproduces itself over several generations is
evolution.
If you check medical records just over the past century, you will
find that humanity has evolved somewhat, probably because of
improved nutrition.
The average person is several inches taller now than two centuies ago.
I stand almost 8 inches taller than my parents did.
That's not evolution. You are taller because of nutrition, not
genetic change.
Humanity may, in fact, be devolving, because we keep alive the unfit
and allow them to reproduce. The basis of evolution is, after all,
survival of the fittest.
Bob
So this is going to evolve into a eugenics thread, now?
8-)
Well, I do believe the study of eugenics is a valid scientific endeavor...
keith whaley
