Upon reading Darwin's Natural Selection I started to wonder about unnatural modifications being propogated by man today. We are altering our food supply, our livestock, and our species, with scientific breakthroughs in cloning and genetic engineering. How would Darwin feel about this Not-so-natural selection? What consequences could this have in the future of the species? Could eating genetically modified foods have any effect on our future as a people?
If we are, in fact, still evolving, is there any telling what effect altering the natural course of things will have in the future>? And what of species that are dying out because of modern industrialization? Is that, in itself part of natural selection; survival of the fittest? Are we, in effect, playing God? What sort of genetic mutations and evolutionary changes can we expect to see with all of this fiddling around with nature? We are already beginning to see strains of antibiotic resistant superviruses, I hope somebody is thinking about what they are getting us into...
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