SC - Period survival-genetics-OT-OOP

[Micaylah]

Ras said...

>In the web of life, a few hundred years is not enough time for evolution to
>any impact on the human organism at least not in the way you describe. I would
>suspect that with modern practices such as immunization and extreme sanitary
>conditions, the opposite is true. Many modern people that now survive would
>have died of natural causes in the MA, winnowing out the weak and those with
>little or no resistance to normal disease such as whooping cough, measles,
>mumps, polio, assorted poxes (chicken and cow), and pneumonia all of which I
>have had and survived to tell this tale. OTH, I recieved vaccinations for
>small-pox, typhoid, and a couple of other nasties which I forget. Other causes
>of death would have been tetenus, life threatening allergies, diabetes, tape
>and round worm, tick fever, fungus infestations, diptheria, leperosy, etc.

Holy smokes, are you a medical record or something? I'm so glad to see that
you're still around. Given the list that you have just recited, I can't
imagine I'd be very happy with the side affects, etc. that you must have to
live with. Makes me feel very small and insignificant having only asthma and
progressive kidney disease...and very thankful.

>Given the list  above, I would think that even if the gentic superiority
>premise of modern man is taken as a serious thought, it becomes rather evident
>that our current survival rates are artificially induced by modern medical
>practices not genetics. In fact, I would go so far as to say, that modern man
>is weaker and allows potentially defective people to survive and multiply
>thereby weakening the gentic pool instead of strengthening it.

Weaker perhaps. But as you said, we can't be sure what was out there in the
middle ages. We can only assume. Maybe a better way of putting it would be
to say that we have different resistances to different things. I don't know,
its starting to boggle my mind trying to wrap my head around this one.


>Sadly, I can only opine that we , indeed, are a weak version of humanity when
>viewed in the context of history.

Mmmmmm? Perhaps you're correct but weaker in what sense? That we don't have
a resistance to diseases sone of which don't really exist anymore or
stronger because we don't have to worry about them anymore because we have
modern medicine to rely on and thus are able to persue a more finer tuned
body for the future? Again, I dunno.

Micaylah

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