From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   u01mzb@abdn.ac.uk (FixinDixon) wrote in   
   news:51f64020.0311280752.63b38ebd@posting.google.com:   
      
   > I'm not saying that evolution is not ongoing.  Of course it   
   > is...that's the point of evolution.  What I'm saying (sigh) is that   
   > Homo Sapiens Sapiens, OUR species, will eventually change into a new,   
   > maybe improved species.  This species will NOT BE Homo Sapiens   
   > Sapiens.  It will be another different species.  Perhaps I wasn't   
   > clear enough, so apologies fo that.  We, or our descendants, are not   
   > going to suddenly all develop new characteristics overnight.  One of   
      
   Good point.  Nor are we going to suddenly all lose old characteristics   
   overnight (those useless little toes don't seem to be going anywhere soon   
   - no matter what an ex-dorm-neighbor of mine who knew "evolution means   
   change" and wasn't creationist or anything but still had no clue how   
   natural selection worked says).   
      
   > our children will have a peculiar adaptation that allows it to   
   > function better in our world.  This will be passed down throught it's   
   > offspring and so on until enough of them exist to be classified as a   
      
   Actually, they wouldn't be classified as a new species unless they can't   
   have fertile offspring with the rest of us.   
      
   > new species.  Because every parent wants the best for their child,   
   > adults will mate in this new species so their child gets the best   
      
   OTOH, parents wanting the best for their children also helps slow down   
   the process of evolution.   
      
   Sometimes someone who has lousy genes wants to make babies instead of   
   adopting or not having kids.  Sometimes someone marries and makes babies   
   with someone else despite that person having lousy genes (the two are in   
   love, the more-lousy-gened one is rich, the two believe their grandfather   
   when he says "a match between cousins is a match made in heaven," the   
   less-lousy-gened one is desperate to marry anyone, whatever).   
      
   And once they make babies who have these lousy genes, sometimes they   
   actually make an effort to keep these babies alive and help them grow up   
   into adults instead of letting natural selection weed out said lousy   
   genes from the population.   
      
   Likewise for the hypothetical peculiar advantageous adaptation you   
   mention above - whether that adaptation becomes the majority depends on   
   whether the people who don't have it can still grow up and stay alive and   
   have kids, or whether they're somehow denied medical care, or whether   
   they're all lined up against a wall and shot.   
      
   > genes possible.  Eventually, because Homo Sapiens Sapiens is no longer   
   > mating amongst itself, it will die out as a species and the new one   
   > will carry on.   
      
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