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Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over
GogglesPisano writes "UK geneticist Steve Jones gave a presentation entitled Human Evolution Is Over. He asserts that human beings have stopped evolving because modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring, which results in fewer of the mutations necessary to drive evolutionary change. Apparently the fate of our species now depends upon older guys hooking up with younger woman. I, for one, welcome this development."
All I have to do is to convince my wife to allow me to quit my job. She can provide the income for the family. I will do my duty to save our species by opening a non profit impregnation clinic.
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Steven Novella deconstructs this nonsense with his usual thoroughness. The executive summary is that Jones got a lot of facts wrong, and that mutation is overrated as a factor in evolution anyway.
you are making a impilcit asserstion here which is both technically and ethically wrong . you speak as if a LOw IQ is an intrinsic trait of someone .its been widely accepted that human mind is a clean state . most of the intelligence is acquired .
if someone has a low IQ its not a reflection of the fact that he don't have brain cell it means that his enviornment never offered him enough stimulus . so its better to invest in education and crerative thinking than inventing rational to justify that they are bringing down the collective IQ of GenePool .
you might not know but Hitler also started with this premise of clearing the genepool and seeding it with good [aryan ]genes only . result is WW-2 and mass killing of jew .
kill these thoughts my brother they only bring disaster .
somethings are best left unsaid , I am one of those things
Interesting . Does it means that those few , who are genetically superior [ an unearned privilege btw ] have a unsurmountable lead on the rest of the species . can someone work his way up to smartness and hope that Genetics will be kind to his children . think of JeWS .According to Hitler and his contemporaries they had low IQ and they are bringing down the IQ .Today they are considered to be most intelliegent race in world.
they are a living example of environmental factors outdoing genetic factors and may be spilling over to genetic factors. this is how it should be . this is how its supposed to be .
somethings are best left unsaid , I am one of those things
You are confusing Social Darwinism and biological evolution. Your last sentence is correct, though.
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I wonder, if with the prevelenace of cosmetic surgery, will it eventually effect the gene pool?
I mean, if we cut off EVERY black mans left arm when they where born, wouldn't that trickle down genetically eventually (honest question, only using blaq mang as a word, not racially.... Change it to chinese, Japanese, American, Caucasian, etc to suit your needs).
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Cubeless doom is a likely result of uncontrollable expansion of the State.
The state is evolving. It's changing too rapidly for Time Cube to validate it. Soon, it'll become very unstable.
The state's power-structure is beginning to resemble a Singularity. The whole thing lacks balance and cyclicality. It's brainwashing people with lies, and corrupting their sense of true moral obligation (it often instead teaches false moralities).
The state is PYRAMIDING.
Initially, there is genetic self-sufficiency. Next, there comes introduction of technology. That then results in deterioration of the genepool, and extinction!
Academia develops sophisticated technology. This technology supplants the human gene-pool. It reduces the natural human capacity for survival.
We thus become reliant on technology and on the WordVirus. Consequently, we shall share in the ultimate fate of the State.
Initially, when a species is formed, all its individuals will be genetically similar. Then, it will diversify gradually into a number of different races, each race being separated by geographical delineations. Each race has unique and valuable traits. If the races are mixed together, however, the whole species will regress and revert.
An initial species diversivies into numerous races which then become species. Miscegenation, however, causes a reversion back to the start.
Miscegenation-racial mixing-degrades racial integrity. Miscegenation causes a racial slop. And in that it denies that each race has unique qualities, miscegenation is even racist. Miscegenation must be avoided.
Interracial marriage is stupid and evil for it creates a child not of either race, betraying the child and both the races. Educators don't know black from white.