Monday, April 10, 2006

Getting Evolution Up to Speed





"People like to think of modern human biology, and especially mental biology, as being the result of selections that took place 100,000 years ago," said University of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn. "But our research shows that humans are still under selection, not just for things like disease resistance but for cognitive abilities."


(Via The Anomalist.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Evident !! why the selection could change only physical param ... all adn type can have hasardly mutation ... and brain is in evolution too, but with our medicin this is a big difference because physical natural selection is lower, for physical power medicine is very bad but the personn that dont have good physical adn can have some good géne for brain.

ok sry for my bad english im french lol BB

Anonymous said...

Eugenics is indeed the future. To reverse the stagnation of our gene pool and save the species, mankind must seize control of our own evolutionary path. DNA repair and artificial selection will introduce natural immunity to disease, enhance our overall intelligence, and propel the species forward. Imagine a world where the genetic predisposition to genetic diseases (like cancer) has been completely eliminated, and humans have given themselves natural immunity to virtually all viruses and bacteria. The only thing you would need hospitals for would be trauma.

That day is coming, sooner than anyone thinks. You just have to open your mind to the possibilities, and throw away the fear of change. In this case, the change cannot be stopped: like a tsunami, it is coming...