Tag: natural selection

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Professor William S. Blau, Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, belongs to an exceedingly small cohort of mainstream researchers willing to address what may prove humanity’s most consequential challenge: the gradual deterioration of our genetic inheritance. While countless scientists celebrate medical progress and the technological conquest of disease, Blau stands nearly alone in examining the troubling paradox at the heart of modern medicine. The interventions that enhance individual well-being may be quietly undermining the genetic integrity of our species. (more…)

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How can Darwinian natural selection account for altruism? (more…)

Karl Pearson

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To provide the analytical backbone for the much-needed revitalization of the study and practice of eugenics, one need only present a clear and stark dichotomy: If not eugenics, then dysgenics.

There is no stasis; there is no in-between. It truly is black and white. The fitness of human populations is a zero-sum game: the more eugenic one is, the less dysgenic it is, and vice versa. Because all human populations are finite in number, and because all people are born and eventually die, eugenics and dysgenics cannot both rise or sink with the tide within a single population. (more…)