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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (2469)	1/23/2001 10:40:55 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't understand the question, I don't think. Viruses have their own evolutionary logic and methods. Everybody's (everything's) genetic programs are adapting by surviving or not their challenges, and that includes ours and those of AIDS. Do you mean that maybe it's possible that AIDS would select enough of one category of the population to cause a significant change to the pool? In Africa, for example, AIDS is overwhelmingly a heterosexual disease, so while, if it weren't extinguished first, it might-- by definition-- select the most vulnerable human genes to extinguish, I suspect those wouldn't be sexual-preference ones. Is that what you meant?