# Where is Evolution heading?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 3, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129 "2007-11-03T19:57:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yelimS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/54ee81/32.png) [@yelimS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yelimS)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129/21 "2007-11-05T21:30:48Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
resistance and will thus presumably ‘evolve’ to be the Masters of Earth.  
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You’re forgetting Keith Richards!  
WRT this myth originating here, that would be an intriguing question to ask Cecil. The irony!

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**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129/22 "2007-11-05T21:56:31Z")

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[QUOTE=John Mace]  
Right, except it’s only indirectly related to “surviving”. Reproducing, and passing your genes on to the next generation, is the key. There is often a correlation between those two things, but not always.  
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Right. In the animal kingdom, leaving behind the most descendents is pretty much the only reward to being genestically superior.

In human society, although it’s not PC to acknowledge such a thing as genetic superiority, if there were, then it should come as no suprise that those who are are not the ones having the most children.

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129/23 "2007-11-05T21:59:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Triskadecamus]  
By sheer weight of numbers, or even weight of biomass, the bacteria are winning. Have been all along. They are lagging behind in art, and science, except medicine, where they are regaining a slight edge, after some setbacks last century.

Tris  
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Just because _you_ can’t appreciate their art and science…

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-evolution-heading/425129/24 "2007-11-06T03:41:26Z")

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[QUOTE=begbert2]  
Just because _you_ can’t appreciate their art and science…  
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humanist pig, yep.

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