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Originally posted by stingc
In terms of modern human life, darwinism obviously doesn't apply in its usual sense anymore. We take care of those would have never survived, etc. I think this is good to a point - intelligence is now more important than physical strength - yet modern medicine is I think getting close to seriously degrading our intrinsic health.
At the same time, we are still a product of our past. We are not wired to be attracted to modern traits. Nerds can hardly get laid, yet they shape our future 
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I couldn't agree more. Although the thing about the mental strength vs Physical strength hasn't really applied up until this past century. Think about how rapidly our technology has evolved in the last century??? I would say it is a dangerous rate, we have come farther in 100 years then in 10,000 years of our existence, radical change like that will for sure lead to problems. At the same time I don't think we have gotten physically weaker as a species, just look at people like professional athletes, people like Shaq... wasn't the average size of a male like 5'5" up until the 18th century? People like William Wallace were considered giants and he was only 6'4" (big, but not huge by today's standards).
As far as the species getting weaker though, I think it is definently possible. Those that would've died off have been preserved thus keeping the gene pool at a lower standard.