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Originally posted by Mantus
To answer to the original post, and hopefully get back on topic.
Survival of the fittest doesn’t really apply to our species anymore.
While it may still seem that the physical condition is still important for finding a mate, its actually just a relic of the past.
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I'm always reluctant to post in Tilted Philosophy, but this thread is interesting. I've noticed a few people who seem to think that humans are somehow outside of Darwinian evolution thanks to our advanced technology and our dazzling social mechanisms.
Let me put this simply- as long as we can still die out, we are subject to evolution. Despite what Mantus is saying, we are still at risk of extinction, even in some glorious Stelarcian/Kurzweilian future. Death is the driving mechanism of evolution, people; let's not forget that.
I'll agree that it's getting less likely that humanity will become extinct in the near future (we've got numbers and we've got opposable thumbs), but all species become extinct in the end. We're fragile creatures living in a universe which is more or less inimical to life. The odds are always monstrously against life, and we don't have the power to shorten the odds.