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To: Reeses
Compared to natural evolution, war is very high speed. Genetic mutations in the wild can take 100,000 years to vet, while war can dramatically change the human gene pool in a few years.

With a few exceptions wars have only killed off a vanishingly small portion of the population to cause much of genetic impact. Any impact it has will pale in comparison to the effect of the tendancy that those with a PHD tend to have far less children then those who dropped out of high school.

45 posted on 07/10/2004 11:20:07 AM PDT by rmmcdaniell
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To: rmmcdaniell
those with a PHD tend to have far less children

That brings up another subject. With the invention of the pill in the 60s, double X chromosome intelligence has become a self-limiting trait. I don't think men with Ph.Ds father significantly less children. The pill hasn't been around long enough to have had a major genetic impact but it will be significant in the future. Before the pill, highly educated women had many children.

If you don't think wars have had a significant genetic impact, look around. How many Native North Americans do you see? Thinking that world wars have ended is a bad bet. It's just a matter of time before the terrorists get a nuclear device and kill millions of people, setting off another revision to the gene pool.

53 posted on 07/10/2004 11:59:18 AM PDT by Reeses
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