evolution

Dragon X, I agree with the previous posters who say that a new species may not necessarily start to destroy the less evolved humans. But then again, that may not have made for as interesting a dramatic premise. If the show had gone on longer, it may have featured splinter, heretical groups that did not agree with the others' tactics, some who were congenital vegetarians, or, gasp!, vegans. All of these scenarios, and many more, could have been explored, specially from less paranoid vantage points, if only the show had been given a better time slot, or better pr. As it is, the X-men, the classic comics, and not the films, are the best example of what this may actually entail; and in that one, Magneto's is the more likely, and compelling viewpoint, but only because the premises of mutant manifestation are accompanied by existential trauma more akin to adolescent angst than to species emergence, which is to be expected, as teenagers were the initial target audience. Still, it was interesting to see its narrative evolution from the time when Cyclops' coolness was as compelling as the more exotic, brutal, zen-co-opted, and ultimately conventional appeal of Wolverine, a more adolescent personage than Slim Summers could ever hope to be. As to whether an advanced human subspecies would not be detected at present is highly debatable: recently, reports were enthusiastically made about a baby in Europe, with significantly more muscle mass than average humans, calling it a new step in evolution, if my memory serves me right. I wonder, how the baby would feel if this implies that he's a throwback to Andre the Giant, rather than a connection to the emergence of homo superior? And in the Discovery Channel even more recently, a fully operant autistic man with dreadfully magnificent memory, synaesthetic attributes, and appalling powers of cogitation was featured. He learned to speak fluent Icelandic in seven days. Is this a new step in human evolution? He seemed like a very friendly, well-adjusted chap. But then again, television is a medium that warps one's impressions into seductive semblances of reality, only to later disabuse one of that willful innocence. See you in the funny papers.