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| ▲ | jeremyjh 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Evolution of humans by natural selection is already over with - or at least proceeding at time scales irrelevant to our civilization. |
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| ▲ | card_zero 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "Contrary to popular belief," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution I don't think it matters, mind you. | | |
| ▲ | snk 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it doesn't matter then it is not evolution, right? | | |
| ▲ | card_zero 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | So it's things like: some people died because there was a famine and they didn't have lactose tolerance (and thus didn't have any cows, or they'd just eat the cows, a detail). Some people died due to having unnecessarily large and sturdy jaws in the era of cooked food. (Not sure how this would cause death, perhaps due to greater surface area for tooth trouble? It's always the teeth.) Then, their offspring - wait, I mean other people's offspring - are more adapted and less vulnerable. Well sure, we should become less vulnerable, including biologically. But there are better ways to accomplish this than having people killed. |
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| ▲ | bravoetch 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not sure about death being required. It's more that life after reproductive success is not required. |
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| ▲ | idle_zealot 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Curing aging doesn't stop death entirely. There's still the attrition of living in the physical world. Some portion of the population will trip and break their necks every year. |
