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Is Humanity Still Evolving?
sciencehabit writes "In a world where we've tamed our environment and largely protected ourselves from the vagaries of nature, we may think we're immune to the forces of natural selection. But a new study finds that the process that drives evolution was still shaping us as recently as the 19th century (abstract). 'The finding comes from an analysis of the birth, death, and marital records of 5923 people born between 1760 and 1849 in four farming or fishing villages in Finland. ... Natural selection was alive and well in all of the villages the researchers surveyed."
Are you completely insane? Reread what you wrote. Classifying people into subspecies and "Walmart people"...not to mention your very own genetic sister is somehow below the level of acceptable human standards to reproduce????
Contrary to what many here would have all of us believe...intelligent people are not the rightful owners of the planet. The children of those "Walmart people" and even your sister's children are very capable of equalling and god forbid surpassing your own intelligence. The environment of a child has so many impacts on their potential it is not even funny.
For anyone anywhere on this planet to assume your children has more of a right to live than another's because of IQ, income level, or your job title...speaks volumes to how countless horrid acts in our history have occurred.
I hate to break it to you...I know nothing about you or your sister...but I can assure you...your logic of reasoning is flawed the second you begin to cast any form of judgement over someone.
Painting with such huge strokes and determining a persons rightful place on this planet is somehow unnatural because they were not murdered or killed or had an accident a long time ago screams volumes about yourself and very little about reality.
I don't normally go out of my way to attack someone...but my god man not even your own sister is worthy of having children??
Perhaps I'll say the one thing that many slashdotters would never admit to...what ensures your line down the generations is not your income level, your IQ, or your job title...it's your social ability to interact with everyone. You know...the slut...the man whore...the charming git you all love to hate....even a complete slob/moron that has no job can get laid and find a woman and have children if he or she knows one simple thing...the thing many on here failed to learn all through their lives...how to be a social person...how to interact and how to notice the queues that tell you you could get laid if you just put the effort into it.
Hate the world all you want and how all the wrong people are reproducing...but the truth is natural selection is working perfectly. Just because you don't like the answer it gives you doesn't mean you get to claim that somehow the machine is broken and you're the rightful heir to the planet.