CurtAdams  wrote or quoted:

> If you're concerned about evolutionary changes that could cause 
> trouble, you should think about positive selection for changes
> to our fertility system.  Now that essentially all survive to reproduce and
> women at least can have as many children as they wish there's enormous
> selective pressure to convert humans into baby machines, via any mechanism
> possible.  This could potentially have serious deleterious effects on human
> nature from the cultural viewpoint.

Humans - like all other animals - surely qualify as baby machines already.

The selection pressure favouring the production of large numbers of 
offspring is not a new thing - it's been going on for billions of years.
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