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Originally Posted by avandonk
Our young are the future. Just remember they choose the retirement village for you when you are GAGA.
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Like hell they will! I'll be choosing my own retirement home, thank you very much, and will have a plan laid out in full for the time when I can no longer think or speak clearly enough to chat up the nurses.
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On the other topic, I agree that the absence of natural selection for most of the human population may be "devolving" us in certain ways. However, since we do not know what the future holds, perhaps the "backfill" of the population with characteristics that were not an advantage in the past may be an advantage (for species survival) if conditions change rapidly in ways we don't anticipate. That is, perhaps the sections of the population we expect to dominate won't do well. Nature has been doing this for a long time - she's pretty good at it.