The authors agree that modern medicine, by saving the lives of more and more defective persons who formerly would have died before they could reproduce, has fostered the rapid increase of genetic disease in the population.
The authors agree that modern medicine, by saving the lives of more and more defective persons who formerly would have died before they could reproduce, has fostered the rapid increase of genetic disease in the population.
They think that whatever genetic deterioration is occurring as a result of decreased natural selection is so slow as to be relatively insignificant. See p. 251.
The authors agree that modern medicine, by saving the lives of more and more defective persons who formerly would have died before they could reproduce, has fostered the rapid increase of genetic disease in the population.
They think that whatever genetic deterioration is occurring as a result of decreased natural selection is so slow as to be relatively insignificant. See p. 251.