by perfect i don't mean super human because that is impossible, what a mean is a human with enhanced recuperative abilties or a greater resistance to sickness or disease, maybe a asteticaly pleasing physical form.
2006-08-26 20:59:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
fine relatively perfect then, if there is no such thing as perfection.
2006-08-26 21:29:00 · update #1
"enhanced recuperative abilties"
How enhanced? Complete freedom from all diseases, or only most? If so, which ones? And what about mental illness? How could eugenics engineer brains whose subjective performance is consistent with the same patterns of behaviour?
"asteticaly pleasing physical form."
Whose esthetics? Caucasion, African, Oriental, Middel Eastern, Native American, Inuit, any others? Who decides? You?
Regardless of how many generations we spend on selective breeding during the course of our civilization, we won't make even the tiniest dent in the overall process of evolution. That's because you left out one very important "attribute" for your perfect human:
The ability to breed more successfully than other humans.
This ability may have nothing to do with resistance to disease, since (as we have seen in our very short history) population groups which are impacted by disease and/or shorter life spans tend to breed at a faster rate than those which are not.
Evolution is a very complicated engine which drives breeding success or failure based on genetic traits that have nothing to do with anything you've described as characteristic of "perfect" human beings.
The process you describe might very well result in a bunch of good looking, healthy people. But if they can't breed fast enough to compete with everyone else, they're goners.
2006-08-26 21:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by almintaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concept of "perfect" keeps changing from generation to generation: remember the Russian adage: "Perfect is the enemy of good!" A perfect human, therefore, in any generation, is but a dream child!
2006-08-26 21:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 generations.
One generation to breed the perfect human and the second generation to totally destroy the notion that a perfect human can indeed be bred!
2006-08-26 21:27:07 · answer #3 · answered by zamir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many generations would it take to define the perfect human?
2006-08-26 21:07:07 · answer #4 · answered by MaqAtak 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of them.... Since there is no such thing as a "perfect" human being, no mater what your definition of "perfect" is. (Kinda like ol' slick willie Clinton wanting to know the definition of "is".)
2006-08-26 21:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there isn't any longer probable a appropriate human because of the fact, what do you define as "appropriate" ? as quickly as you get into seeking to purify the race, you initiate thinking like a Nazi- and each variety of atrocities because of the fact justified. a appropriate international is a various international, the place variety, ( and each guy woman and baby) is accepted, enjoyed and enjoyed.
2016-09-30 22:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eugenics could never achieve that. All eugenics experiments up to date were horrible fiascoes. Genetic engineering might.
2006-08-26 21:04:39 · answer #7 · answered by ladybugewa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my clone is an example of that
2006-08-31 12:29:59 · answer #8 · answered by Joe C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-26 21:07:09 · answer #9 · answered by merdad b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋