Considering some evolutoinary concepts such as sexual selection and adaptation to environment, is it possible that media's indoctrination of people into looking for certain traights in a mate they would probably not otherwise look for, will have an impact on human evolution?
Is it possible that because of media's content, a man born today with a traight stigmatized by media through it's overemphasis on the unimportant ones, may never find a spouse, but the same man born 500 years ago may have had a traight that at that time was advantagous and therefor had 7 kids? 500 years is nothing as far as evolution but I think the human species is evolving at an exponentially increasing rate.
What about the growing emphasis on speed and short-term productivity instead of creativity and accuracy?
Doesn't this mean the often slower but more creative people have less chance for success and will therefore eventually be genetically filtered out of existance? I wonder how Isaac Newton would fare in todays world.
I think that evolution is going to take a turn away from adaptation in order to survive in an earthly enviroment, and go towards adapation in order to survive in not an environment at all, but a fantasy. Some truly useful traights may eventually be completely stripped from our species as a result, and in a worst case scenario could result in the extinction of the human species.
Is it possible that because of media's content, a man born today with a traight stigmatized by media through it's overemphasis on the unimportant ones, may never find a spouse, but the same man born 500 years ago may have had a traight that at that time was advantagous and therefor had 7 kids? 500 years is nothing as far as evolution but I think the human species is evolving at an exponentially increasing rate.
What about the growing emphasis on speed and short-term productivity instead of creativity and accuracy?
Doesn't this mean the often slower but more creative people have less chance for success and will therefore eventually be genetically filtered out of existance? I wonder how Isaac Newton would fare in todays world.
I think that evolution is going to take a turn away from adaptation in order to survive in an earthly enviroment, and go towards adapation in order to survive in not an environment at all, but a fantasy. Some truly useful traights may eventually be completely stripped from our species as a result, and in a worst case scenario could result in the extinction of the human species.