<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div>On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:47 PM Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi@gmail.com> wrote:</div><div>> How about human beings? Are people better at crossing the</div><div>> street, or driving without rear-ending someone else?</div><div><br></div><div>I don't see why there couldn't be some changes here, especially if some of this is genetic. Humans, however, have longer breeding cycles than swallows. And the effect is probably a lot smaller to begin with since humans usually don't run across big highways in the first place. :)</div><div><br></div><div>> In Europe traffic fatalities have been steadily decreasing in</div><div>> the last ten years:</div><div>> http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/statistics/index_en.htm</div><div>> this is usually attributed to better car technology, driver behaviour,
etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know the break down here and some of that might actually not lead to a kind of direct genetic change, such as humans evolving better means of directly avoiding accidents like faster reflexes or better sensory accuity, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div> My science fiction short story "Residue" is now on Amazon:</div><div>http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BS3T0RM for the US<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "> At least check out the new cover!</div></div> </div></body></html>