3 ms·
Seeing as we're the only species on this planet that keeps the sick/weak/disabled alive to reproduce. It doesn't fair well in the long term.
by overcast 9y ago
Seeing as we're the only species on this planet that keeps the sick/weak/disabled alive to reproduce. It doesn't fair well in the long term.
- DoubleCribble 9y agoAlso the only one where the infertile & the dead can reproduce, sometimes together (in vitro + sperm donor). Natural selection has been dealt a mortal blow.
- danieltillett 9y agoIn the long term we can correct all genetic faults with technology. Natural selection is a very crude tool. What we have more of an issue is smart people are not having children, or not having as many as they can. The only resource in short supply on the planet is smart people.
- 2snakes 9y agoBut is intelligence a lethal mutation? Big picture perspective, nuclear arms and environmental degradation...
- danieltillett 9y agoAll of those things are a sign we need more, not less intelligence. Given the current selective pressure against high intelligence it is not too wrong to say it is lethal genetic trait.
- echlebek 9y agoThe Kurt Vonnegut novel "Galapagos" is about how natural selection selected against intelligence, and the resulting evolution of humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)
- watwut 9y agoWe are winners of natural selection. And we are not the only ones with compassion, actually. We are only ones with ability to help - maybe there is some evolutionary advantage in that.