Now that medical science has advanced to a level where many of the most deadly diseases are at the very least treatable, do you think that the 'survival of the fitest' no longer applies to the human race?
Other examples of where medicine has ousted evolution are:
Very pre-term babies now survive in greater numbers
Some extremely virulent diseases have been virtually wiped out (smallpox, etc..)
Greater longevity.
Also, a greater generational gap with people leaving having babies until much later in life could lead to at least a slowing down of the evolutionary process.
In short, is the human race doomed to stay as it is now that we can keep the weak alive? I'm not advocating abandoning all ill people, I just thought it was a interesting idea.
2006-07-21
15:23:47
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