On Sat August 5 2006 1:40 pm, Ashish Gulhati wrote: > Genetic evolution is pretty much irrelevant for human beings.
Would not agree with this without serious evidence. We just don't know that's all. The high incidence of diabetes and early heart deaths among Indians may well be an indicator of the fact that the "Indian" genetic pool had all these genes lying around without showing up to clearly because people were born, had kids by age 20, grandchildren by 40 and were dead in their 40s or 50s. With people being forced to live longer, and indeed people with some genes surviving into reproductive age - these genes are being passed on and surviving. What effect this will have in future we do not know. We may be evolving in other ways. It may well be that fetuses that survive until they are born are surviving despite the environmental toxins that are now getting into mummys system. That might mean a selection of genes that had no advantage when things were less polluted, but are now an advantage to human survival Like I said. We dont know and I would hesistate to make a dogmatic statement about the lack of importance of human evolution. shiv
