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Old 11-07-2005, 12:35 PM
purnell purnell is offline
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Default Re: Has evolution stopped?

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Evolution as is commonly known has ended. People these days don't die because they are slow or weak or stupid.

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"Survival of the fittest" is only one simplified part of evolution.

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and just because people are slow, weak and stupid does not mean they are not evolutionary fit. Couple of the posters here seem to think the fast, strong and intelligent are un-fit.

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This is a great point. Some of the adaptations that make the cow so successful is that it's slow, dumb, and tastes good. Not that that's really natural selection but it's the same principle.

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why isn't this natural selection at work?

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Because anytime humans are involved people will say it's artificial selection.

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...as if humans were somehow outside of nature
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