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To bring this point to the extreme, after some time we may have two races of humans, one "higher" race, that would be more intelligent, educated, cultural, and

To bring this point to the extreme, after some time we may have two races of humans, one "higher" race, that would be more intelligent, educated, cultural, and would rule over a much more numbered "lower" race that would be physically stronger, has better mass-reproduction ability, but lower intellect, becoming less and less intelligent over time. In even more far distant future, those two races may even split so much, that they become separate species, without ability of cross-breeding. Higher species would continue to call themselves humans, and the lower species will quickly drop to the status of animals in the eyes of the higher species. Then someone will learn that there was once Home Sapiens, which was an ancestors of Home Modernus, and Home Animalis, which is an evolutionary dead end.

astazangasta 8y ago
No, this will never happen. Genetic isolation of the kind you describe is impossible. Even attempts to maintain racially pure castes are stymied by people's propensity to fuck the wrong person, never mind this happening through passive means.
- kiriakasis 8y ago
  also if you consider the fact that the process would last quite a few centuries of stable society and that illegitimate "hybrids" would be stronger and healthier. (the split would not be 50/50, but more like 99.99/0.01 so the "upper humans" would be a terrible bottleneck)
kiriakasis 8y ago
> which is an evolutionary dead end Just to provide a different perspective In this contest the likely evolution of Home Modernus would be through a slight abuse of eugenics and genetic manipulation dictated by a sense of aristocratic entitlement. This is likely to produce (almost literally) peacock tails in the higher humans. Evolutionary dead ends happens indeed when traits and behaviours necessary for the survival of an healthy community lose their utility against the environment (in the case of peacock the vivid colours are a signal of an healthy individual able to provide more that enough food). Meanwhile Home "Animalis" lives outside the upper society, but close to advanced and cheap technology (old by that time standard, but new for us) essentially in a condition not distant from the countryside of many developing nations today. In the long term I would bet on the "lower" race
thaumasiotes 8y ago
> after some time we may have two races of humans, one "higher" race, that would be more intelligent, educated, cultural, and would rule over a much more numbered "lower" race that would be physically stronger, has better mass-reproduction ability, but lower intellect Since you've stipulated that in this scenario the two classes are still interfertile, in what sense is this not the case right now?

astazangasta 8y ago

No, this will never happen. Genetic isolation of the kind you describe is impossible. Even attempts to maintain racially pure castes are stymied by people's propensity to fuck the wrong person, never mind this happening through passive means.

kiriakasis 8y ago
also if you consider the fact that the process would last quite a few centuries of stable society and that illegitimate "hybrids" would be stronger and healthier. (the split would not be 50/50, but more like 99.99/0.01 so the "upper humans" would be a terrible bottleneck)

kiriakasis 8y ago

> which is an evolutionary dead end Just to provide a different perspective In this contest the likely evolution of Home Modernus would be through a slight abuse of eugenics and genetic manipulation dictated by a sense of aristocratic entitlement. This is likely to produce (almost literally) peacock tails in the higher humans. Evolutionary dead ends happens indeed when traits and behaviours necessary for the survival of an healthy community lose their utility against the environment (in the case of peacock the vivid colours are a signal of an healthy individual able to provide more that enough food). Meanwhile Home "Animalis" lives outside the upper society, but close to advanced and cheap technology (old by that time standard, but new for us) essentially in a condition not distant from the countryside of many developing nations today. In the long term I would bet on the "lower" race

thaumasiotes 8y ago

> after some time we may have two races of humans, one "higher" race, that would be more intelligent, educated, cultural, and would rule over a much more numbered "lower" race that would be physically stronger, has better mass-reproduction ability, but lower intellect Since you've stipulated that in this scenario the two classes are still interfertile, in what sense is this not the case right now?