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Comments: 1 +-   Recent Human Evolution Was Driven By Selection-> on Thursday December 13 2007, @05:36AM Slur

Submitted by Slur on Thursday December 13 2007, @05:36AM
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Slur writes "Call it Moore's law for DNA molecules... The New York Times reports an insightful theory of Human evolution that gives credit for our accelerated evolution to the evolving brain. By virtue of our aesthetic and utilitarian preferences we ourselves have been responsible for molding the present human form and consciousness. Applied to other species we call it "artificial selection," but the new theory implies we did it all quite naturally, unconsciously, and that the exponential evolutionary acceleration we have achieved as a species in recent time is just what you'd expect. It also suggests that the current lull in our physical evolution is by "choice" as well. Is this the dawning of the age of Narcissus? Stay tuned."
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  • I have always assumed that the dawn of culture halted the evolution of the human body. I wasn't even aware of this as an assumption, I just always accepted the notion as fact. So if I get nothing else from the article, I'm glad to have had that assumption exposed and challenged. A good start to the day.

    I'm curious where this new line of thought can take us. Could we purposely drive our own evolution? If so, who would decide the ideal towards which we are aiming?

    Unfortunately, the NYT being a (pr

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