Humans Still Evolving: No One Knows Where

Recent research on human genomes from several continents shows that distinct human breeding populations are still evolving away from each other. But is this a good thing? Even in countries such as Canada--where several tribes of humans coexist--the tribes appear to be evolving apart. Fragments of homo multiculturalis.

Humans are ingenious primates. Within Europe--for a time the center of world invention and science--evolution seems to have led to homo welfarensis. To make sure Europeans never regress to the atavistic state, European educational systems have instituted a brutal mind-warping indoctrination of its children away from economic freedoms, toward economic authoritarianism.

In many muslim countries, evolution seems to have been striving toward the apex of producing the perfect suicide bomber. Evidence suggests this evolutionary path has neared its goal.

In South America, evolved human ingenuity is largely applied to better ways of producing and smuggling illegal drugs.

Russia appears to have evolved an allergy to procreation--with a rapidly shrinking population unable to man its crumbling civil and military infrastructure. Simultaneously, the evolved Russian tendency to grab any land in sight has mutated to include a grabbing of large areas of seabed. This Russian grab is stimulating a worldwide rush to exploit the arctic.

In China, farmlands are shrinking, the quality of existing food cannot be guaranteed, and many are wondering about the wisdom of locating the 2008 Olympics Summer Games in Beijing.

While hugely important scientific advances are taking place constantly--particularly in the Anglosphere, Europe, and East Asia--human evolution has not been all to the good.

In fact, anyone who is exposed to the mainstream media at all cannot help but wonder how humans can possibly survive as a species? Humans are certainly "glitched", and in many ways a total "kludge." But they do not have to remain that way.

That concern is one reason for the Al Fin blog, and the Al Fin sidebar resource. Every writer at Al Fin wishes for the human species to evolve into a wiser, more intelligent, happier, longer-lived, healthier and more accomplished primate. We share that concern with participants at the Lifeboat Foundation.

If you share that concern, browse the Al Fin sidebar and the resources over at the Lifeboat Foundation. From there, you will find an electronic universe of others who share at least some of your attitudes and concerns. You may even find a partial solution to work on.