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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
... have actually allowed variation to increase by helping people with mutations that might be a disadvantage in the current environment to survive with the possibility that a future environment might be more advantagous. In addition, sexual selection is as strong as ever.
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Yep, Earth will belong to dim-witted, since their reproduction rates are high, and the survival of an ever larger portion of their offspring, is continually ensured by the brighter minority.
On the other hand, if the brighter ones manage to hang on long enough, they may be able to eventually engineer brighter offsprings for the dimmer ones.
Either way, the continuing population explosion is at the root of pretty much all environmental trouble. Effective family planning is the only realistic way to preserve the world we know.
But, politics and religion get in the way of sensible family planning, other than in the few places, where it's least needed.
Very long term, Arthur C. Clark's "beams of light" at the end of
2001: A Space Odyssey, may actually make technological sense, and may solve the over-population problem....
