Re: Evolution In Humans

From: dkomo (dkomo871_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:10:24 +0000 (UTC)

Strider wrote:

> Surely there must be on going studies in the evolution of humans and I
> was wondering where they (and you) think this is taking us as a species.
>
> First of all, we all know of the social gap in society and that
> invariably will be reflected in biology too.
> Will disruption in society and potential revolution reset the balance or
> could the permutations continue.
>
> Just something I've been 'thunking' about in my bored-at-work days.
>
> Incidentally. Hi there.
>

Biological evolution takes place on the time scale of hundreds of
thousands or millions of years, so in our case I think it has little
relevance. We will have either destroyed ourselves or transformed
ourselves into Homo Superior (a distinctly different species) through
our science and technology long before then.

     --dkomo@cris.com

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