Is A Life An Evolutionary Examination And If So, Excluding The Obvious, What Are Our Individual Prospects Of A Pass?

[Colmc54]

So you have children. That could be an evolutionary failure for all you know. I never did have biological issue but what if I did something that contributed to our survival as a species later on?
Unlikely for me, but is it our unnatural concern for the propagation of our own genetic legacy and not our ability to think beyond that concept to a more collectively beneficial alternative that, as we act like we have transcended evolution, might help us one day to avoid extinction?

[Old_Geezer]

... WE THINK ...
like I $/&**/$ typed !

[jomifl]

Colm, I think evolution has the ability to take care of itself, whatever we do or don't do to preserve our gentic legacy is evolution in action, it could be argued.

[mibn2cweus]

The human species has through evolution been provided with what is potentially a remarkable tool for adaptation to a continuously changing environment, an environment which through our success as a species has been impacted for both better and worse by that very success . . . namely, the capacity to reason.

Whether this inherited capacity proves to be predominantly a blessing or a curse depends largely on whether and how we choose to us it, selectively or respectfully of the potential for good or evil that it provides.