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This thread is too funny!
I could live for 1000 years and I wouldn't "evolve". I may become resistant to the odd disease, so I have gained a beneficial trait. But it's only when I procreate that the real advantages become apparent. If I had lived in that same town as my father, my grandfather and my great great great great... grandfather before me, and I procreated with a girl in my town who's descendancy also came from the same town, then meiotic recombination in the germline, where my chromosomes mix with hers will create an offspring with pretty much identically genetic makeup.

However, if my family had moved around the world, my great great grandfather lived in Africa, my great grandfather lived in Spain, my grandfather lived in China and my father lived in New Zealand, and I procreated with a girl whose family was equally diverse in nationality, then our offspring would have a combination of the genetic pool from around the world, and that kid would have amazing genetic diversity. And would have a great chance of having some amazing advantages over the highly inbred kid.

Isn't this why America is so great? An evolutionary biologist, or population geneticist would say so, because America doesn't have any single genetic pool, as it the American genetic pool has been created from a world population.

Or maybe that's what devolution is all about ;)

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