Re: Future of Man: the Speciation Process
From: Fabrizio J. Bonsignore (fbonsignore_at_beethoven.com)
Date: 10/01/04
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Date: 1 Oct 2004 03:52:35 -0700
Civilization imposes barriers to inter-population breeding analogous
to the geographical and ecological barriers that generate the
divergence of species in non rational living beings. These barriers
ensure that characteristic traits get spread among a population that
distinguishes it from other populations. These physical
characteristics are object of study of ethnology, while the cultural
characteristics, extensin and complement of the physical ones, is the
object of study of anthropology.
Human created barriers have the effect of limiting procreation among
populations; these limits if perdurable will eventually lead to
biological divergences and the creation of new human species with
characteristic traits. The process may need millions of years or only
some hundreds, depending on the appearance and propagation of
mutations. If cultural barriers to procreation are such that
interbreeding is almost assured to be null, we can speak of virtual
human subspecies, not necessarily coincident with human races. In
psychological terms it is less costly to form a family with people
with similar physical characteristics and upbringing. Racism and
intolerance are expressions of the underlying biological economy of
procreating with similar individuals and further act to reinforce
biological divergences; in other words, we hate (populations) because
we don`t want to have children with them.
Each population exemplifies different aspects of the human possibility
space and add to the species diversity. These differences are valuable
per se.
The speciation process is such that for every generation biological
change seems nonexistent compared to the possibilities open by Reason.
In practical terms evolution is stop nonetheless.
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