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>Are we to defy natural selection? Hell yes. Have you ever been to a hospital? Defying natural selection is what makes us human beings.
by JonnieCache 15y ago
>Are we to defy natural selection?
Hell yes. Have you ever been to a hospital?
Defying natural selection is what makes us human beings.
- Tichy 15y agoWhat do you mean? Cosmetic surgery?
- JonnieCache 15y agoI mean pretty much everything that goes on in a hospital. Every time someone is prevented from dying, we are defying natural selection. In a sense, all use of technology raises us above our biology. In another sense of course, all our technological innovations are only a product of our naturally selected abilities, higher cognition, opposable thumbs etc. However, when you take this view, it renders the whole point moot, because it merges our higher social behaviours with our innate ones and erases the whole distinction.
- Tichy 15y agoYou have a too narrow view of Evolution. Of course technology and so enters the equation, enabling us to survive better. Nevertheless we are still subject to evolution.