When it’s not being used to make the snouts of collies even more anteater like, selective breeding can be a powerful thing.
Unconsciously we can see it being done when actors marry actors, sports heroes marry sports heroes, musicians marry musicians, etc. Of course we will have to live lifetimes to see how it affects these areas of human achievement. As well, we will have to correct for the nepo baby effect. In other words, the influence of their parents in being hired initially, or more easily.
I’d like to start a selective breeding program, myself, in an effort to improve the human race in a way that I find to be advantageous.
I believe we should breed for transparent eyelids. It is possible to see through my eyelids if it is bright or dark where I am. I can see a little light when I am in the sun, through my eyelids. Even bright indoor lights are detectable through my eyelids.
Other people may have the ability to know what direction the light is in that they are detecting through their eyelids.
I say we take the best of these people at seeing light with their eyes closed and knowing where the light is coming from and breed them. It might take many generations but at minimum we will have bred for a thinner eyelid from these people. At best their eyelids may be transparent.
If their eyelids get transparent, think of the benefits. They could look during a sandstorm/ snowstorm. They could keep their eyelids shut tight to avoid illness being circulated through their eyes ( they wouldn’t need the covid screen then). They’d be harder to kill in their sleep because they could still see a would be assassin while snoring away. They could swim in chlorinated water with their eyes not being bothered.
A potential drawback is that to sleep they might need an eye mask. But eye masks are cheap and easy to rig up if none are available.
I think it would be worth it to selective breed for this type of human. But if we did, would the results be called evolution? How about mevolution Or ievolution? I prefer this last one because it is all about the i’s, but Apple might try to sue.
