http://www.bloggernews.net/111227 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 23 May 2012 20:11:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/111227#comment-114854 none Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:13:40 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111227#comment-114854 Sounds like Nazi Race Science warmed over. For them, the goblins were the Jew and the Gypsy. Who will those inspired by the likes of Oliver Curry paint as the new untermensch I wonder? So much for Human Progress. Sounds like Nazi Race Science warmed over. For them, the goblins were the Jew and the Gypsy. Who will those inspired by the likes of Oliver Curry paint as the new untermensch I wonder? So much for Human Progress.

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/111227#comment-114756 Han Brane Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:35:57 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/111227#comment-114756 Utter hogwash. This guy will contribute to his field only in the way Freud did: by forcing us to think about these things to show how wrong he was. I am a layman, but I did take Stephen J. Gould's class at college. For a speciation event to occur, there needs to be isolation of a group of the population for many generations. How is this going to happen with globalisation and travel becoming more of the norm. There also needs to be some sort of environmental pressure, I suppose I could imagine global warming leading to pressure to survive, but who is to say that it will result in creatures that he seems to think will be entirely sexually selected. It may be just the oppposite, the creatures with features that are grotesque to us may be most adapted to survive. Finally, I don't think there is any correlation between intelligence and looks. If you look at the so called developed world, most of us are fat and overweight and hardly good looking. Utter hogwash. This guy will contribute to his field only in the way Freud did: by forcing us to think about these things to show how wrong he was.
I am a layman, but I did take Stephen J. Gould’s class at college. For a speciation event to occur, there needs to be isolation of a group of the population for many generations. How is this going to happen with globalisation and travel becoming more of the norm. There also needs to be some sort of environmental pressure, I suppose I could imagine global warming leading to pressure to survive, but who is to say that it will result in creatures that he seems to think will be entirely sexually selected. It may be just the oppposite, the creatures with features that are grotesque to us may be most adapted to survive.
Finally, I don’t think there is any correlation between intelligence and looks. If you look at the so called developed world, most of us are fat and overweight and hardly good looking.

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