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I removed the following paragraph[edit]

"We, as human beings have defeated the evolutionary process of natural selection, through the discovery and improvement of modern medicine. Now, as a race, we are faced with a new evolutionary selection process; Cultural evolution. In order for the human race to continue its dominance and survival, everyone in a certain society, or culture, must conform or be rendered an evolutionary cul-de-sac."

It is biased, incorrect, and non-sensical. Humans have not defeated natural selection, as is commonly mistaken, as we are still subject to environmental pressures, the rise of disease, increasing antibiotic resistances, and many other problems directly related to selection. Educated people have fewer children than uneducated people which will significantly alter culture if the desire and ability to learn has a significant genetic basis. To claim that humans have "defeated the evolutionary process of natural selection" is not substantiated, even if only applied to selection on the biological level (ignoring the possibility of the action of natural selection on other scales). As long as humans have any dependence on the environment and people die from non-arbitrary occurances, humanity has not escaped natural selection.

Moreover, the species is not a "race" and we are not now faced with new evolutionary processes but still facing the same set of multiple processes since language began. 130.126.108.210 18:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]