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Re: Who says humans have stopped evolving?
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Whatever it is we are doing  it is working for us. We are in excess of 6 billion (nothing compared to microbes, but. . .) and we out competed other homo species to be the only one left of about 15 species of genus homo.

A general comment. Survival of the fittest is not really what evolution is about. It really is the survival of the just fit enough. For example our bodies are not perfection.  We walk upright with aching feet, knees, hips and backs and give birth with difficulty and pain. All to be able to walk upright. Which was a considerable advantage. We were not necessarily the best in the jungle or the savannah but the sum total was just enough for us to survive when others did not.

Martin
On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Lisa Rudy wrote:

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> yes, but you also have to (1) attract a mate; (2) be physically capable of making a baby; (3) have the ability to raise that baby to the point where it can survive.  if you're alive but unable to do those things, does it count for purposes of evolution?
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>> All  you have to do re: survival of the fittest is to live long enough to pass along your genes, the biological imperative.  Anything that helps that...
>> Beryl
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>> On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Lisa Rudy wrote:
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>>> vaccination and chemo and genetically engineered crops  - absolutely!
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>>>>> If we could control evolution through technology, we should surely be living longer and healthier lives - yet overall we are not!
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>>>> Is vaccination or chemotherapy or farming considered technology?
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