freediver wrote on Apr 8
th, 2014 at 6:58pm:
Quote:we had been blowing big sharks up for years, they never became extinct.
Because we put a stop to it.
Quote:The study examined 59 fatal encounters between black bears and humans in Alaska, Canada and the Lower 48 during the 110 years
I think that is slightly more common than our shark attacks.
I followed a black bear for half an hour or so once in the eastern US. It was only a small one. It was getting dark, and the flash on my camera seemed to annoy it.
Quote:We've effectively stopped evolving, from now on the process would relate to changes in society
Why is that not evolution? Teamwork has been a part of human evolution from the beginning. Our social skills are what set us apart and are the root of our intelligence. It is credited with our success over Homo Erectus.
Evolution is an 'effect' (rather than a force) brought about mostly by premature death. And as we are now preventing early deaths by all different means, those factors that lead to it in the biological sense are not being eliminated. So we can say we are evolving socially (we aren't even doing that), but biologically we are in decline. The future could suit people of lower intelligence, logic being a late arrival can also possibly be a liability. Don't accept this? Consider, the working class are more likely to have more children than are the higher classes, and sure the death rate among the 'hoon' types will be higher, but still that class represents a higher percentage of the population. And even if we were to have normal population control events like world wars these wont be having the same effect as they did in the past (the cannon fodder that the workers and their offspring were once used for wouldn't be needed).
And if we accept that the universe is 'Natural', then the glaring defect that will to a degree jeopardize a sustainable future would have to be the Y chromosome, something that will within the next few decades become redundant anyhow.
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