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From a strictly evolutionary standpoint are we as a species "painting ourselves into a corner"? I've been thinking a lot about the threat of global-warming and the atmospheric and geological changes it is capable of instituting and I'm left wondering if we as Homo Sapiens aren't due for a shake-up. Our recent surge of technology and enlightened thought have put us in a cushy little spot in which natural selection plays small part in shaping the physical and genetic forms that we now express, rather the technological advances now select which genes move forward. As far as competitiveness within the world goes Mother Nature is a far crueler and more efficient agent of change than any machine. You see when we were making the transition form australopithecines to homo the world was arrayed against us in the most hostile fashion, the cold reality is that if we did not bring our A-game in the genetic sense we would have been selected out. We were forged into super-predators by a process that only favored the smartest, fastest, and strongest of us, anything not making the grade was considered a detriment to survival. Where has this lead us? To a culture in which survival is now a matter of adaptation to society, we no longer need to stalk and kill for sustenance, but rather work for our bread. And there's obvious evidence to show how conditions have altered so drastically: wisdom teeth, appendixes, allergies. Now that is the crux, we are at a point in which the prowess of natural selection is at a standstill concerning which genotypes are successful and which are failures in the game of survival, technology now holds that position. However many things are still in Mother Natures especially harsh realm and they're being bread for war (namely microbes). So it's with a heavy heart and black conscious that I wonder if our species needs a global warming-like disaster to get us back in the game, something to at least balance-out the technology/Mother Nature effect. Now before I go anywhere else let me stress that I'm not a Eugenicist, a Nazi, or a Social Darwinist. I'm simply curious (and somewhat concerned) as to where our genetic heritage will be in the future, with all the talk of the impending apocalypse and how we must save the planet for generations to come I wonder what the cost will be to us because maybe on the genetic level we need this type of trial by fire. I guess the question is "Do we have the ability to survive ourselves?"

Here is a poiniant article from Rotten.com: Superbugs.