Time-scales

Al Globus wrote:
>Middle-class humans are exposed to almost no evolutionary pressure.
>Almost everyone survives past child bearing age.
>Space colonies probably won't be very hard to survive in. What
>evolutionary pressures there are will probably be self-imposed and
>executed via genetic manipulation.

Indeed. There's even a Yahoo Group which focuses on that specific aspect of
orbital colonization.

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