Friday, June 17, 2005

The Global Inbreeding Epidemic


Could a simple thought, foresee an ironic end to our race?

I've been thinking about this for a little while. You have three couples of a man and a woman in a room with no doors. Lets say that theoretically they can live without food or water. The only thing I'm getting to is the urge to procreate occurs, and they begin to have children. No one is allowed to leave. Ever. The children get older, and they of course have the urge to procreate. The young men and woman have children. This continues for however long. The parents have children, and their children have children, that have children..... Imagine whatever you want. At some point, that room is going to get pretty full. And what will happen at some point? There is going to be some type of unintentional (hopefully not intentional) inbreeding inevitably at some juncture.

Now think of the Earth as the room with no doors, and instead of a few couples, there are thousands, or even a hundreds of thousands of couples across the globe. This would be the start of the human civilization. Now we began to procreate for a couple thousand years. Things are getting pretty tight in the room lately, right? Is there anyone who keeps a tally on the occurrence of unintentional inbreeding? Does that even exist? Yeah, I know, I'm ridiculous.

Sooner or later, the gene pool is going to get pretty tight, and begin overlapping. There isn't any fresh gene pools coming in from anywhere else, and we all come from people who were since the beginning. Now give us a few more thousand years from now. Who's to say that when the population rises predictably higher, and if we escape any number of unforeseen tragic occurrences to our planet, that we would actually begin to inbreed, ironically by our own instinct to survive. Are we just naturally devolving, and just keeping busy while it comes? I know. You hate me.

13 Comments:

Blogger M. Rolfe G. said...

Hey, I was just browsing through some blogs at random and came across this one. I've actually got the same condition, except it's my right ear instead of my left.

June 17, 2005 11:50 PM  
Blogger Beo said...

That's awesome. Your the first person I've come across. We should start a movment. Let me guess, the best part is being able to go to sleep, and have the pleasure of total silence.

June 17, 2005 11:57 PM  
Blogger astroboy said...

I've got a couple hot cousins. Let's get to work.

June 18, 2005 4:40 AM  
Blogger Beo said...

Your a sick man Stro.


When can I meet them.:)

June 18, 2005 9:57 AM  
Blogger the engineer said...

Are u on crack!!...thanx for coming out!

June 18, 2005 2:13 PM  
Blogger Beo said...

I stick my hands into the testicular regions of your brain, and I jiggle em'. That statement in and of its self can certify for crackism. It's fun to watch you guys.

June 18, 2005 3:57 PM  
Blogger Jillian said...

That was deep.

June 18, 2005 4:32 PM  
Blogger thurston said...

That sounds like a word problem that would be on the SATs.

Hope your weekend is going well! Speak to you soon.

Love, T

June 19, 2005 10:17 AM  
Blogger Beo said...

It is T. Except that it's almost over. Love ya back.:)

June 19, 2005 3:21 PM  
Blogger still_figuring_out said...

hi there.

i guess procreating is a never ending circle...huhm...i dont know if this theory freaks me out or gives me something to ponder upon.

June 19, 2005 10:37 PM  
Blogger eyeball_715 said...

i could ponder this until my head hurts...

but, all in all, good point!

June 19, 2005 11:10 PM  
Blogger Rosie said...

There's a minimum number of unrelated organisms need for trouble-free reproduction. Now obviously when you go back far enough, everyone (and everything) comes from a common ancestor. So where to draw the line?

I think a bigger problem is sperm donors. Some guy needs money, he's hosing his sperm all over the place, and 25 years later two of his kids met and fall in love. There's egg donors too, but that's not as common (I think it hurts). And adoption--someone who came from a closed adoption wouldn't know a blood sibling from a hole in the ground.

June 20, 2005 9:39 AM  
Blogger Beo said...

Great thoughts Rosie. Trouble free always becomes trouble at some point. Thank you Still Figuring, and eyeball for stopping by.:)

June 20, 2005 12:00 PM  

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