To: TobagoJack who wrote (84446 ) 12/11/2011 7:42:10 PM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Respond to of 218670 Nature is horrendously cruel, merciless, relentless and clever. <i aim to learn much over the next 7-15 years, about how the many must fall so that the few can rise. > If we check our DNA construction, we will find that 99.99999999999999% of attempts at DNA design have ended in failure and obliteration from the gene pool. [Give or take a few orders of magnitude as the gene pool is large and has been running for a billion years so the details are obscure*]. Just in recent history, we know that all males extant 30,000 years ago outside Africa were unsuited to modern life and it took an emigre from Africa to repopulate the planet outside Africa with the right stuff. Similarly, it took a woman out of Africa some 90,000 years ago to do the same for the female lineage. The rest were designated as fit for recycling into CO2 and spare parts for the ecosphere and to provide support while alive to the successful newbies. Hopefully, the next 7 to 15 years will not grind too fine in selection of who is fit to proceed, and we can continue to largely indulge ourselves with natural lifespans, leaving the selection to be done by reproductive omission rather than by harsh and involuntary early termination as has happened so terribly to so many in bygone eras. The current anti-1% envy shows there is little understanding of natural processes. Envy is one of the Seven Deadly Cardinal Sins and there is no escape from punishment for sin. Virtuous Victorian Values remain a requirement for eudaimonia, whether the Greeks know it or not. Mqurice * With reassortment and mutations, the number of DNA attempts must be staggeringly stupendous. Here is scholarly mitochondrial family tree analysis volgagermanbrit.us People are working on it. According to them, all humans are from one female only 200,000 years ago.