Design and Adaptation

From the fantastic blog Overcoming Bias

"First, it is pretty obvious that within a century or two at most our descendants just won’t be creating descendants by randomly mixing the features of two parents, any more than firms today design new products via random mixes of old product features. No, our descendants will be more deliberately designed, with design components inspired by, if not directly taken from, a great many predecessors. They just won’t make babies the bio-sex way."

"Our mental adaptations to sex are subtle and well-tuned for our mating task of slowly teasing out the abilities and intentions of others while becoming increasingly committed to and dependent on those others. Our distant descendants will likely adapt such abilities for their many purposes. Future sex may well change greatly to meet future needs, but it will still be recognizably sex all the same. Long live sex!"