> hkhenson wrote:
> >> And there are certain parts
> >> of the population doing their best to outbreed
> everyone else just to
> >> skew future demographics. So it's likely to
> be a hard crash, and not
> >> a very well controlled one at that.
> > This would worry me more except I think the age of
> genes is about
> > over.
>
> What do you mean by that? Do you mean that we'll be
> modifying
> ourselves rather than being subject to the random whims of
> mutation
> and selection in the next century (which is what I read) or
> did you
> mean something else?
> Charlie
what parts of the population are "doing their best to outbreed everyone else",
and why? it seems to me that less developed countries are the culprits, partly
because children are a source of labor...
i would hope that genetic modification is in the forecast (as long as we keep a
pool of "wild" humans).
jon
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