The next step in Human Evolution: When? Where? Why?

[Mr Khan]

sapphi_snake said:

Armads said:

Of course humanity will continue to evolve.  Those citing modern scientific development as a block for evolution are forgetting that as our society progresses the needs of society change.  The smarter more capable will always be more likely to survive.  We easily miss it happening but those with greater intellectual capabilities are continuing their genes with much greater sucess then the idiots of the world.

 

Think about it, who's more likely to become a CEO, a guy with a GED and a below average IQ or the guy who got a perfect score on his SAT? 

Don't smart people tend to have fewer children than stupid people (mainly because smart people tend to use birth control and practice family planning, while stupid peopler mate like rabbits)?

Plus, I doubt that nerdy scientists who are extremely smart have as much reproductive success as a stupid jock.

The movie Idiocracy (a comedy) ran off that precept, that a man with an exactly average IQ today was frozen into the future, and awoke to find himself a super genius because the birth trends were only for the stupid to continually reproduce, and found a society of idiots