A Paper for the Future (in more ways than one!)

Although someone else is choosing a paper for next week, I thought I would post this anyways just because it is so provocative. The paper is by the evolutionary biologist Michael Lynch and is on the accumulation of potentially harmful mutations that we, in industrialized societies, are building up throughout our genomes due to our health care. He predicts a decline in human fitness in the coming centuries. It might be interesting to read this in journal club sometime in the future. Crazy stuff.