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Human Race's De Evolution

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-18 22:22 ID:HMt9xzkB

The human race is realy going down the shit hole. To thrive as a fucking race we usualy breed with only the fittest to survive. Yet we all produce mentaly retarded kids and people with severe disabilities and inadequet mutations in out DNA which will be passed on to there kids.

Eventualy all that shit will spread (slowley but it'll still happen) So what does that mean? Evolution doesn't apply to humans? Genetic engineering plox?

Am i wrong? Please tell me i am because if my theory is wrong then we're all doomed for a very slow and bloody death as a society.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 2:03 ID:vo1AgDVY

On average, human DNA will keep getting crappier, but self selective groups such as the wealthy and academic types will continue to evolve.  Eventually there will be a noticeable genetic difference between the uneducated working class, and the educated middle class, since genetic crap will lead to reduced productivity and beneficial genetics leads to increased productivity; also, we can assume that breeding within the same class will be more common than breeding between classes.

Evolution still works for humans if you consider poverty to be analogous to death (see social darwinism)

Of course, genetic engineering will revolutionize evolution before it has any real impact.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 4:36 ID:aIBgx+Lj

>>1
You are correct genetic engineering is the best solution to this problem since selective breeding humans like some sort of barn animal is inhumane.

I predict naive liberal hippies and religionfags will try to mess everything up by claiming science is greedy/evil, fascists will try to implant the racial ideals that dropped out of their assholes regardless of reality. Some other crazy shit no one can predict will happen and it will all revolve around people acting like complete retards.

People don't like to be told they are inferior and it is wrong to pass their genes to their children, no matter how true it is.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 10:44 ID:DTq2GS3b

Evolution doesn't have a goal, so 'de-evolution' is still evolution.

It doesn't matter though: Once we create strong AI, we will have made ourselves obsolete.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 11:52 ID:jM8kMCWB

Well I don't know if this is a troll post or just a poorly organized rant resulting from a haphazard analysis of the Time Machine, but anyways:

>To thrive as a fucking race we usualy breed with only the fittest to survive

What does this mean?  Do you mean physical fitness, mental fitness, pathogen-resistance?  Or are you alluding to social conditions: overpopulation, standard of education...

I don't know where people get off saying that "ppl are getting dumber," because in my opinion, our biological capacity for genius hasn't changed.  There was Euclid, some arab guy, Newton, Einstein, and you can pick a contemporary genius.  All were revolutionary thinkers in their times, the only difference being the amount of starting material they were given.

>Yet we all produce mentaly retarded kids

True, but with the advent of genetic counselling, parents do have the option to screen for harmful conditions, so provided they take the effort to do so, the developed nations can take measures to lower severe genetic diseases.

>Eventualy all that shit will spread

No, it won't.  It's not a cancer.  There is a discrete probability of acquiring such a mutation, and over the long term it will be selected against because the mentally incompetent (generally) don't have children.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 17:48 ID:S+nmNjKS

in b4 DEVO

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-19 18:47 ID:QWPBpOVT

actually, genetic deficiencies are slowly decreasing, not spreading. i mean come on, who's gonna shag a downs kid?

Name: Larry Downs 2007-06-20 0:31 ID:OStC/lsE

>>7
Yer mom did last night.  Git'r done!

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-20 0:49 ID:w57MVltK

So I was watching porn and the gitrdone guy walked into the scene and said "gitrdone!"

Name: RedCream 2007-06-20 9:11 ID:YUHEXBsH

#1, you can't possibly generalize the failure of the West as a failure of all Humankind.  So your filthy little American Empire is failing.  So what?  Empires always collapse in a pile of their own turdery.  Other cultures will continue.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-20 11:08 ID:etrXCN4K

>>10

/newpol/ is that way, this is about genetics.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-20 16:16 ID:h4CH1Wf4

*sigh*
Devolution doesn't make any sense. It's not even wrong, it doesn't mean anything. Natural Selection is the adaption to the current environment. There are no 'strong' or 'weak' genes, there are genetic traits that are suited (or not suited) for a given environment.
Everytime someone complains about devolution Darwin's ghost cries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_devolution
Look under the misconceptions about evolution, maybe it will help you understand.

Name: RedCream 2007-06-20 18:32 ID:xQStHUJ5

#11, #1 started it by generalizing the failures that he sees all around him in Western so-called civilization.  Therefore his proposition has nothing to do with genetics.  If anything, your rebuke should have been aimed in his direction.

Well, get on with your rebuke!  #1 must be waiting eagerly for your insight!

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-21 10:39 ID:X1OiLpxW

devolution is just a buzz word for when a species is not under natural selection or selective breeding, quit whining

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-21 10:48 ID:C0qgirhH

>>14
A species cannot not be under natural selection.
lern2evolution

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-29 7:38 ID:n2DVWWcx

>>4

humans have stopped/slowed thier evolution down, and machines are now evolving in place of humans.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-18 3:27

I wants lots and lots of some delectable pot!

Marijuana MUST be legalized.

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