Are humans in the process of decommissioning natural selection, the force that made us?

Question

Are humans in the process of decommissioning natural selection, the force that made us?

Answer 1

yes because it seems we are too concerned with eachother and things that dont concern us,we need to all be more animalistic in nature and we can be just as the animals,uninhibited,free,and natural,

Answer 2

Yes

i feel we are being too far removed from our own biology  - despite the discoveries that scientist are making (such as dna, brain patterns, preferences etc)

it's because the lefties think we are a product of society, rather than our forefathers!

Answer 3

natural selection produces different allele frequencies between generations and between populations. as long as there remains genetic variability, as well as heritable deleterious traits, such as genetic disease and mental illness, natural selection will always be a driving force in any population. think about it: if you cannot survive to reproduce because of a deleterious trait, that trait will not be passed on to further generations and it will dwindle from the population.

you may be asking about sexual selection, which is not natural selection. natural selection selects for survival, while sexual selection selects for reproduction. to address this point, just because humans don't exhibit a universal pre-existent sensory bias does not mean they do not exist. if you only look at the differences in physical traits across the world, you can see that individuals in different populations have different preferences, which enables certain traits to continue through generations, shaping the genetic framework of that population. every human shares the same genome, it's no accident that we display such varying phenotypes.

modern medicine may be slowing the number of deaths from heritable deleterious traits, but it's certainly not stopping it. i do believe that enabling detrimental traits to persist in populations is interfering with natural selection, but i do not believe that we will disable its influence on our existence. allowing detrimental traits to persist in a population increases the population size. we are already living in an over-populated world and we are faster reaching our habitat's maximum capacity. once we reach that breaking point, it will devastate our population.

how can one species 'deconstruct' a process that has made every single one of the billions of species found on earth today? humans believe that they are more aware than other animals, but considering that most people cannot properly define evolution, i don't think we're about to outwit it.

Answer 4

No, just the criteria change.

Girls do not select the fittest or the smartest, they choose the one with the most money and the best car. Men still choose the most beautiful.

Answer 5

Yes, I am convinced that we are!

Rather than letting those of us with mal-adaptive differences try to fend for themselves (to their ultimate demise), we go out of our way to help them out, ensuring their survival and eventual opportunity to procreate.  We are thereby dismantling the very mechanism that removes such mal-adaptations from the gene pool.

Am I suggesting that we do anything different?  Heaven Forbid!  We are human, and act humanely.  I would not want to live in any other sort of society.  But by doing so we are actually increasing the prevalence of genetic mal-adaptations by NOT screening genetic deficiencies.

Answer 6

Currently, the forces of natural selection still apply to humans.  With recent and future advances in genetic engineering, all bets are on the table.  We might want to bio engineer all sorts of things.  For example, if we could make children with 150 IQs and blue green eyes (or whatever you like), it might someday become a reality.

Answer 7

lol, I wonder where people come up with this stuff.

Answer 8

Lech O is right. The criteria has just changed from natural aspects to more social aspects of life.

Answer 9

Too right we are! We are keeping alive humans that are not

viable and they are reproducing. Natural justice led us to

kill murderers,rapists, paedophiles, and violent lawbreakers.

Then along came the loony, liberal left and now we have to live among people that are the natural enemy of of a stable

society, as a result they are breeding wholesale, and we pay

through the nose for them.

Answer 10

No, just the criteria change.1. Girls do not select the fittest or the smartest, they choose the one with the most money and the best car.

2.Men still choose the most beautiful.

Okay  okay you got me on the first one, but #2?? Have you seen some of the cows that Mexicans, & Black men choose?? A  reasonably attractive man sometime chooses a semi-medusa fully equipped with cellulite

Although Billionaires choose 0% redheads to wed? That's crazy because redheads are hot!