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    How will the human race continue to physically evolve? With technology making up for physical deficiencies, natural selection seems to not occur anymore within the human race. Well, it still occurs socially but that doesn't keep someone from reproducing.

    I have always wondered what happens when survival of the fittest is removed from a species. What direction does it take? Will we all end up like those overlord creatures from HL2 in a couple million years?
    Dec 18, 2009 12:32am PST
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    • At this point, I would say the greatest changes in our physical forms are likely to come from non-biologi... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
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      Stagnation is what I'm guessing. When there is no survival of the fittest, what is there? Currently, it's... : DeejayKnight
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        It's not survival of the most financially well off. Evolution cares nothing for money, all it cares about... : uncleanmonkey
        • The human mutation / evolution race is increasing massively right now. : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
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      From my observations, I believe the human race, sadly, is degenerating to fat globs of shit. : mofoThis person is cool!
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        Jersey Shore disagrees : MamiyaOtaru
        • Everyone should evolve massive abs. : askedrelicThis person is cool!
      • Refer to Wall-E : yautjaThis person is cool!
    • Natural selection will always happen (something like 1/30 people carry the cystic fibrosis gene in the u.... : Ovate
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      There are still a lot of evolutionary forces at work, just a bit less death. Evolution isn't just dri... : jcupittThis person is cool!
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        The circumcised? You weird dick dudes are digging deep to defend your delusions. : Modica Sol Solis
        • ^^ has little sensation in his penif and is therefore uninterested in sex : jcupittThis person is cool!
        • I think you'll find that your recent financial woes are directly linked to your lack of this crucial anat... : uncleanmonkey
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      There was a story on the BBC a while back where some guy predicts that we will split into two species. Du... : theghostofsmdever
      • If you've ever taken a flight between Scotland and Stockholm the stark contrast would make you think we'r... : uncleanmonkey
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        Morlocks and Eloi? : Old_FartThis person is cool!
        • Exactly what i was thinking. : erebusThis person is cool!
      • Ah yes, the Walmartian and Starbuckian theory. : gooblerampling
    • http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?printable=1 : spectr3This person is cool!
    • Biology is cool and all, but our 'evolution' in the last 100 years is a testament to our own ability to s... : ryuusekiThis person is cool!
    • Survival of the fittest is already removed from "developed" cultures. Survival of the economy may be the... : bld
    • C.H.U.D.S. : druciferThis person is cool!
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      We're fucked. Fact. The way the world government systems work is we will choose greed & growth above and... : yautjaThis person is cool!
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        That will never happen. I don't think I would even want it too. Humans have gotten this far because of dr... : erebusThis person is cool!
        • wont happen. the universe will only stretch and destroy the next planet we goto. The universe is young. ... : yautjaThis person is cool!
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        That sounds like a shitty, stagnant existence to me. : ArcanumThis person is cool!
        • in your perspective, yes. But visit a country like vietnam and see how happy they are living on next to n... : yautjaThis person is cool!
        • Continual expansion isn't sustainable, at some time we have to stop. : NexusOneThis person is cool!
      • You should read Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. : gooblerampling
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        I often hear this sentiment from left leaning friends. "Oh, I wish we didn't have money so people would ... : itsjamesThis person is cool!
        • actually communes in scandinavia and the northwest u.s. have been working in green shelters making speci... : akirabob
      • we're supposed to outgrow our environment until it's unsustainable. to say otherwise would be to imply th... : aldraek
    • We'll probably just keep going until some mega-virus wipes us all out since we keep the weakest people al... : mrwolf710This person is cool!
    • Compare the population of the 1st world to the population of the 3rd world. We are insanely outnumbered.... : legsbrogan
    • well, likely our noses will become less and less prominent and eventually we may evolve a new set of cone... : akirabob