I was walking back home when an idea struck me (got to be careful, those buggers are everywhere) that human evolution may ceased to be influenced by nature selection. With all our break through in medical sciences and our mastery of our environment, we have transcend the limitation of nature. All the conditions and circumstances that have driven our evolution has ceased to be applicable to us. Nature selection for human has reached a new epoch. What will be the driving factors in the next phrase of human evolution?
In other words, what factors will give one human advantages over another in passing on his or her genes to future generations?
Is it looks? Wealth? Social Classes? Intelligence? Or maybe, has human overcome our age-old instinct to reproduces as many copies of our genes as possible? After all, sex is now more for enjoyment than reproduction. If so, how will human change? Will we instead of improving, fall back down a slippery slop, since there are no evolutionary pressures?
I don't really have any answers here, I'm just recording down what I'm thinking about.
Link: Is human evolution finally over?
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Ha! That's why I see so many idiots everyday. I thought evolution should've weeded them out from the gene pool by now, but if those biologists are right, the Western lifestyle sure put a stopper on that theory. Damn!
- random passerby ;)
Human evolution? Did human evolved over the last 5000 yrs? Yes, cumulated knowledge grow heaps...but human as a gene pool did not improve much...it degenerated more that anything.
Mingde ah you should read Isaac Asimov's "Foundation Series" from the library... it's about using psychology on a mass-mob basis to predict the future. Actually we can do that now. It's really damn easy to predict actions by groups, governments, nations, PAP etc, just can't apply it to the individual level.
Anyway basically the series plot leads to the next stage of human evolution: a mental link to everything. So basically even better than Jedi. The whole Planet is One. I guess that would be the goal.
It's a really good series. You would like it. Politics and psychology influenced. Not really heavy reading, yet really intelligent.
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