Human Race Devolving........

i saw a movie recently (not saying any names) that brought up a very good point that may hit home with a very large number of ppl that r active members of ao........jk............

it stated that darwins theory of evolution is that basically the smarter and the stronger animals of a species will continue to evolve as the slower and less intelligent species begin to die off.........

well isnt the opposite happening with the human species 2day.........the majority of men and women that are smarter and would have the biggest impact on the human gene pool, would be classified as the unattractive and least likely to "mate", while the more good looking dim witted males (lyke myself......:p1:....) are the ones that are actually out there mating lyke jack rabbits at a pretty ricky concert.............

basically my question is this........do u believe that with the ongoing rate of "wrong mating" that is happening 2day.........the human race may actually be devolving............

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Originally Posted by Heartless_mage

i saw a movie recently (not saying any names) that brought up a very good point that may hit home with a very large number of ppl that r active members of ao........jk............

it stated that darwins theory of evolution is that basically the smarter and the stronger animals of a species will continue to evolve as the slower and less intelligent species begin to die off.........

well isnt the opposite happening with the human species 2day.........the majority of men and women that are smarter and would have the biggest impact on the human gene pool, would be classified as the unattractive and least likely to "mate", while the more good looking dim witted males (lyke myself......:p1:....) are the ones that are actually out there mating lyke jack rabbits at a pretty ricky concert.............

basically my question is this........do u believe that with the ongoing rate of "wrong mating" that is happening 2day.........the human race may actually be devolving............

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I don't know; I happen to think I'm both intelligent and mildly attractive. For every nerdy guy there's an equally nerdy girl . . . or at least that's what I'm hoping. I think we're devolving because we are letting our bodies go to waste. Gone are the days of the Greeks where training was eternal. The only parts of our bodies that get excercised now are our fingers. It's a shame.

I can see where your going, but prehaps even it's the opposite?

you say divine_punish is that we are 'going to waste' (which is prehaps true, I don't disagree with u there), but maybe looking at Evolution..it's just natural selection? Those who sit on there butts all day will just die out ( gene pool will disappear) and those who are healthier will live on to pass on genes or evolve.

or even (which I hate to think so) it is just another phase of evolution where we are adapting to the technology around us. The possibilities are endless.

but as for what you said heartless_mage I think I disagree a bit, because..not all "ugly" people don't mate and not all "good looking' people a dim witts. You can also have ugly and dumb people as well. I guess what I'm getting at is that it's totally random, I dont think that 'devolving' as anything to do with your looks or how smart you are :p

and prehaps it's not even devolving, because wouldn't that mean we are going backwards? Becoming Nethrandrals again? I would just call it evolution anyway? because evolution has a lot to do with adaptation, environment, populations etc etc. Who knows, if your right hearless_mage then prehaps the future of homo sapians is some dim witted evolutionary verson of us XD Or maybe if we are lucky we have enough power over the gene pool with all the technology we have that we don't have to worry about what we will become ( prehaps stopped evolution of humans all together?)

..yeah.. I really thought about this one..XD

This isn't what you're talking about. But lots of human beings are surviving with deformities and illnesses when in the past they would have died off or be killed forcibly. An example I could think of is someone with a severe skin disorder surviving into adult hood when they would have died as a young child. Or a child born with a genetic defect that would be mistaken as a troll or a monster and killed.

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Originally Posted by Heartless_mage

i saw a movie recently (not saying any names) that brought up a very good point that may hit home with a very large number of ppl that r active members of ao........jk............

it stated that darwins theory of evolution is that basically the smarter and the stronger animals of a species will continue to evolve as the slower and less intelligent species begin to die off.........

well isnt the opposite happening with the human species 2day.........the majority of men and women that are smarter and would have the biggest impact on the human gene pool, would be classified as the unattractive and least likely to "mate", while the more good looking dim witted males (lyke myself......:p1:....) are the ones that are actually out there mating lyke jack rabbits at a pretty ricky concert.............

basically my question is this........do u believe that with the ongoing rate of "wrong mating" that is happening 2day.........the human race may actually be devolving............

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I always thought that all species of animals keep evolving unless a big impact on their environment, food supply, life style etc makes it difficult for evolution to take place.

Ugly people with huge amounts of money get to mate with the prettiest girls you can ever imagined for example; Flavor Flave, 50 cents etc. Unless, you happen to be a poor ugly guy chances of getting laid and settle down are 5 out of 10.

divine punishment: i meant more along the lines mentally........because its a proven fact that we as a species are becoming more "fragile"...........

and i c wat u all r tlking about.........but those are concentrated cases............and i hate to stereotype......but the majority of really intelligent guys i kno.......wouldnt be classified as the the handsome.....same with girls......tho there are some....... they are widely outnumbered........

Hmmm... it does seem so... but im not sure if its because of the "wrong mating".. :p but it's an interesting theory ^^ kinda remind me of the movie... Knocked Up.. sheesh

Well...it is even stated that humans become more dumb as one of the judgement day's sign in my religion.. :p and it is true...there are more dumb ones out there.. :rolleyes1:

didnt wanna have to put this here but..........

YouTube - idiocracy intro


enjoy.....this is wat sparked this whole thought 4 me.........