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Jul 7 2011: Childhood in humans is the longest among the animals for a reason: It allows complex cultural programming that aids survival. [view in context] 5531
Jul 7 2011: If dumb people breed more prodigiously than smart people, has human evolution stopped? Not necessarily. ... 5532
Jul 7 2011: Smart people still breed and are increasingly selective, so rest assured there will always be a master race to control the dumb ones. 5533
Jul 7 2011: Human evolution has not ended. It has simply bifurcated, with smart lineages getting smarter and dumb ones getting dumber. 5534
Jul 7 2011: Musicians tend to breed with other musicians, scientists with other scientists. Over time, this will yield many distinct human sub-species. 5535
Jul 7 2011: The many varieties of dogs are the result of selective human breeding. In coming centuries, human breeds may be similarly distinct. 5536
Jul 8 2011: Thanks to social media, similar people can now find each other to an extent never before possible. Hence, more precise genetic selection. 5537
Jul 8 2011: Beautiful people have a natural affinity for each other, resulting in a distinct race of super-beautiful progeny—although not too bright. 5538
Jul 8 2011: Race is no longer a barrier to human breeding, but intelligence still is. We are still conscious of "marrying below ones station" in skills. 5539
Jul 8 2011: Future Apartheid will pit the intellectual races in protected enclaves against the worker classes outside—kinda like the suburbs today. 5540
Jul 8 2011: As human breeds diverge, there will be growing walls between them. One species will listen to NPR, the other to Howard Stern. 5541
Jul 8 2011: Eugenics, as a formal program, is politically impossible, but that doesn't prevent couples from practicing it on their own. 5542
Jul 8 2011: As genetic technology advances, wealthy parents will have greater opportunity to choose their offsprings' traits, accelerating evolution. 5543
Jul 8 2011: In the Brave New World of genetic manipulation, the upper classes will breed more cautiously while lower class breeding remains haphazard. 5544
Jul 8 2011: The walls between genetic classes will remain porous. People can pass through them, but usually in a direction appropriate to their skills. 5545
Jul 8 2011: Evolution does not stand still. As long as humans breed, they are fulfilling its destiny. However, it is not one evolution but many. 5546
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