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But is intelligence a lethal mutation? Big picture perspective, nuclear arms and environmental degradation...
by 2snakes 9y ago
But is intelligence a lethal mutation? Big picture perspective, nuclear arms and environmental degradation...
- danieltillett 9y agoAll of those things are a sign we need more, not less intelligence. Given the current selective pressure against high intelligence it is not too wrong to say it is lethal genetic trait.
- echlebek 9y agoThe Kurt Vonnegut novel "Galapagos" is about how natural selection selected against intelligence, and the resulting evolution of humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)