Okay, I just wanted to use that non-word one time. Sue me. By rights I should ask this in Biology I think, and I might later on, I just value your opinion.
Do you think self-awareness (like us homo sapiens have gained) could be a limiting factor on the more extreme (beneficial) mutations? By which I mean, we have this image of what a human should look like. 1 head, 2 arms, 5 fingers etc. Anything that falls outside that 'image' would be considered, well, a freak, with low chances of finding a mate. I could imagine that in non-self-aware species this would be less of an issue.
Are we hampering the free flow of mutation stacking upon mutation by self-aware selection, leaving room only for the more 'subtle' mutations? Would this be a natural step in species that gain self-awareness, a sort of fixating of external appearances? Or is that, too, something temporary? And is it a good thing?
Just wondering out loud, again, I would appreciate your thoughts on this.
2007-04-25
10:16:52
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