Re:Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
by emiliobumachar on Friday July 04, 2014 @06:26PM
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Human culture changes way too fast for evolution to act.
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Re:Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
by nhaehnle on Friday July 04, 2014 @09:19PM
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I have no idea why you were down-voted. It's true: even if, somehow, evolution had managed to at some point kill off all cultures with a certain trait, the same trait is likely to develop again in at most a few centuries.
If somebody has solid arguments against emiliobumachar's point, I'd be interested to hear them.
Re:Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
by marcosdumay on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:58PM
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Maybe the downvote was because it isn't completely true. Nothing can be too fast, or too slow for evolution.
It's only that culture evolves by different means than genotipes, and by those means fitting the norm more than compensates any unfitness caused by health problems. At least at the short term.
Re:Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
by andrewflnr on Saturday July 05, 2014 @12:53AM
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On the contrary, I would say that evolution works pretty quickly to weed out cultural phenomena like, say, suicide cults, in much the same way that it works quickly to remove gross physical deformities.