Human species 'may split in two'

[Proud2BAmurkin]

This sounds like a division between D's and R's.

No wonder rePUKES hate evolution. They don't want to be permanent members of the Dimwitted Squat underclass. They should be happy liberals look out for lesser animals.

The Democratic class will be smarter, healthier and creative. RePUKE class predicted to be ugly, unhealthy and deny global warming and evolution.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology.

People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

[wryter2000]

1. And brilliant refutation of that nonsense

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2422107

People have been spouting this sort of idiocy since before Darwin and Mendel. It's the reason the English used to transport members of "the criminal class" to places like Botany Bay -- to rid the species of the defective types. It's fun to speculate that R's are genetically inferior, but it's pseudoscience.

[Vexatious Ape]

8. your right

There's a long sordid history of that.

[Benhurst]

2. If present BushAmerican trends continue, it will be

a genitic underclass and a dim-witted upper class.

[mazzarro]

3. Help me out here

Does this mean that all the rich, tall, slim, attractive and dumb blondes will ccount as part of the genetic upper class too?

[warrens]

4. If you've ever been in the small towns of certain areas

The split is already obvious.

[Taxloss]

5. Eloi and Morlocks?

Worth remembering the Marxist interpretation of "The Time Machine". Eat the rich ...

[hughee99]

6. Are you kidding me...

With plastic surgery, almost anyone can be good looking, but they'll still pass on the same genetics they were born with. This is idiotic.

[nam78_two]

7. I hated that study

Reminds me of eugenics and what was that head bumps crap-phrenology?

[mmonk]

9. Dangerous theory.

Could be open to abuse.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Exactly - It seems as though it would set a precedent for

slavery and degradation of the "inferior class", just like during the golden days of the British Empire. It was how they justified the abuses - Indians & Africans were a "substandard" species and therefore it wasn't necessary to treat them as human beings.

Personally, I think the London School of Economics would want to distance themselves as much as possible from this crackpot and his "theory", or maybe this notion is another reactionary step back to the days of the Nobility and the serfs.

[wryter2000]

20. The definitive book on the subject

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780393314250&itm=1

And one of the most important books of two centuries (written in the 20th and revised in the 21st). You would not believe how sloppy and bogus this sort of "science" is.

[BlueJazz]

10. Boy...My fellow/Sister DUer's are missing the obvious....

We already have a split in our population:
Right wing/Religious nuts/conservative Republicans
Left wing/free-thinking/intelligent Democrats

[stubtoe]

11. A quick trip to WalMart will verify that there are already

multiple species of humans

[ovidsen]

12. It's already a movie

And it's a movie most of us haven't had the chance to see, and won't until (unless!) it comes out on DVD. Thanks to survivor999 for the headsup on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2267434

survivor999 Donating Member (945 posts) Sat Sep-30-06 01:24 PM
Original message
Go see "Idiocracy". Fox is trying to kill it.

Has anyone seen it? Does anyone have any information? I heard a great review this morning on NPR.

[MercutioATC]

25. Found this quote about "Idiocracy" on a blog...seemed fitting:

"# By carlos. Comment posted 02-Oct-2006 @01:11pm:

Sorry, but I don't by the America's in decline bs that is being thrown out. Sure we have some problems but I have no doubt given American injunity, they will be solved. Stock market at an all time high, low unemployment even with millions of illegals.

(bold emphasis mine)

[ngant17]

13. What an ioptimist! By the year 3000 we could be extinct

as a species. 1000 years from now? Come on, what a foolish prediction to make. We can't even predict the weather, this year was supposed to be an active hurricane season for the East Coast. It's been a sleeper so far.

It's pretty dumb to make predictions that far in advance. A lot of other problems we will have to face, even if true, this will make his theory insignificant in comparison to global warming, nuclear proliferation, dying oceans, unpredicatable weather patterns, ect.

[Wells]

14. Jimmy Neutron's theory of evolution...

In this animated character's debut movie, Jimmy and schoolmates travel to a distant planet to find an 'advanced alien civilization' with a state of technology far beyond ours. Unfortunately, their technology reduced them to aemobic blobs living 24-7 entirely in their cars. Their mobility devices (their cars) were egg-shaped, flew without noise and exhaust emissions, had mechanical arms and a voice box.

The race was technologically superior, but had devolved physically and morally too. Isolated from each other, without sense of touch, they became obliviously indifferent and cruel, extreme individualism. Their religion was a mass celebration of a giant "3-eyed" chicken, their GOD, who upon hatching was fed human sacrifice. Weird but true. :-0

[Beelzebud]

15. Humans Vs. Freepers

Might make a cool videogame. :D

[BluePatriot]

23. ha, I totally thought that (nt)

[StellaBlue]

17. Hey, I'm short and really smart.

Hmph.

But I totally agree with this premise.

Go see "Idiocracy"!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. i'm going to guess...er...three

Me and Oliver will have a beer and argue over it...there are more than two classes of people so there will be more than two "sub-species" as Ollie predicts.

Some one defrost me in 3000AD and let me know which of us was right...

sP

[cassiepriam]

19. Too late, already split into good and evil camps. nt

[skypilot]

21. In addition to the things pointed out in earlier posts...

...this theory is also contradictory if I'm reading it correctly. On the one hand he expects life expectancy to extend to 120 years, but on the other hand he states:

There could also be health problems caused by reliance on medicine, resulting in weak immune systems. Preventing deaths would also help to preserve the genetic defects that cause cancer.

Doesn't sound like a recipe for a 120 year life expectancy to me.

[smoogatz]

22. There's a guy who lives down the street from me

who has many of the physical characteristics of Neanderthal man. Nice guy, not the brightest bulb on the tree. They say they still walk among us. Who knows?

[Irreverend IX]

24. So you live on Pennsylvania Avenue? nt

[smoogatz]

26. Good one.

Bush seems somewhat less evolved than our Neanderthal cousins, though. Also, he's too short.

[Cleita]

27. Leave it up to a Brit to imagine a class society, this time

formed by genes, instead of birthright.

There are so many holes in his argument to refute that I don't know where to start.

For one think a standing prick doesn't discriminate so mating will be at random a lot of times, like it is today, causing genes to be spread equally among the population.

Also, breeding within a limited group seems to cause more birth defects and mutations instead of breeding a superior race.

Just my humble opinion.

[Brewman_Jax]

28. That's great for science fiction

and great for explaining the presence and the incredible stupidness and ignorance of freepers (I've met college grad freepers :crazy:), it's hardly science fact.

[yellerpup]

29. Eugenics

Some people never get tired of discredited, bad science. Can't believe anyone still bites on this stale old bait.

[Infomaniac]

30. And I'm practicing to be tall and blond...

What a bunch of hooey. I'll take being a squat, fat, ugly human with a triple digit IQ and compassion for my fellow beings over looking and/or soundling like Ann Coulter any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

[SnowGoose]

31. And monkeys might fly outta....

Oh, never mind.

He's got it backward. In another thousand years, not only will there be only one species of human, there will be only one identifiable ethnicity. It's already started. I married outside my ethnic group - a *lot* of people I know have, and for the next generation, the proportion will be even higher. I think it was a lot rarer in my parents generation, and a couple of hundred years ago (an instant in evolutionary terms) much, much rarer.

In addition, many of the genetically isolated groups that might have begun to diverge are being integrated into larger populations (with the unfortunate loss of cultural and linguistic diversity). I heard a sad factoid the other day (don't remember where) - the claim was that more human beings can now understand Klingon than Navajo.