As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health issues we face today aren’t personal failings or modern inconveniences – they’re the predictable…
For evolution to happen, people need to die.
Specifically, they need to die before they reproduce.
Evolution has slowed because modern society makes it easy for most people to live long enough to reproduce.
anti vaccine folks are trying to fix that! They are the golden path!
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And capitalism is making many wait to have kids until they’re older!
I don’t know that it would matter much as long as there is sexual selection rather than natural selection. For instance, if a random cross section of a population dies, then there’s no evolution because there’s no reason that the survivors lived to pass on genetics. Is that not correct?
A one time random die off of the population is too small of a time scale, likely. While it is possible for mutations to occur that don’t confer survival advantage, those likely get mixed and blended out of the gene pool. Evolution requires traits that provide sustained advantages to emerge over long periods of time and for those without those traits to fail to reproduce.
Humans still select for more gracility on average. And social selection is part of evolution too (and not only humans do it).
Im Learning a new word today but I still dont understand after looking up. Could you clarify context?
Well, human skeletal gracility compared to other hominides. There was a study years ago, that human still sexually selects for even more gracility (on average), while already getting to the point, where the bones get too thin to properly support their other roles in metabolism.
Ah, and about the “evolution slowing” part being bullshit; maybe 10 years ago already? Other studies that disproved the myth.
Ok I see how this word applies now.
Cheers!