Will the human gene pool eventually be weakened by the lack of natural selection?
As a species the human race is becoming weaker physically. The overall effect will probably be low for always though. Look at Stephen Hawkings, the man is selectively a defect and allowing him to live and reproduce will physically be against selection. However, the man is a genius mentally despite his disability, and his effect on your overall civilization has been positive. Unfortunately, most sick and disabled people are not quite that productive, but most do a service to our civilization. I have thought a lot about this. In previous generations weak and handicapped people just couldn’t make it unless they were very lucky. Now, we have becoming such a supporting civilization that for the first time people with huge disabilities such as down syndrome are reproducing and large amounts of recessive genes are being spread into the gene pool for negative effects. However, these genes will never become hugely prevalent for multiple reasons, though there will be many sickly people alive tha
