Aucbarpa.1153 net.misc utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:hickman Fri Apr 16 20:39:28 1982 Adaptation of man It seems to me that you are overlooking the possibility of adaptation in a less strict (er?) sense...That is, the adaptation of man to a technological society. It seems reasonable that adaptation not require "gene-death" of a particular person via physical death. Social death (if such a thing exists) could/might account for gene-death in a very different manner than physical-death. Other things to be considered are "Modern" diseases (cancer for instance) which might account for adaptation.....Just some thoughts by an ameture. kipp ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.