>But statistically educated people have less children than uneducated
>people and economically successful countries have a lower birth rate than
>poor countries. So in the next few hundred years natural selection should
>produce a "Brave New World" effect. On the other hand, in genetic terms
>stupid and ugly is superior to smart and beautiful.
>
>billwald@juno.com
all too true, but often the smart ugly people, marry stupid pretty people
(Rush Limbaugh and his fashion model wife leap to mind) and that sort of
keeps things mixed up. Also what is handsome and what is ugly varies from
culture to culture and that keeps things mixed up also. It also varies from
person to person. I think my husband is the hottest thing in shoe leather,
but that's kind of a minority opinion. :-)
Susan
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced
by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew
why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct
species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and
natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the
laws of ordinary reproduction.
---Charles Darwin
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