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Wouldn't accommodating them make evolution slower? Those that have traits making them able to wake up earlier should be "rewarded" if you want to bring change.
by mysterydip 8y ago
Wouldn't accommodating them make evolution slower? Those that have traits making them able to wake up earlier should be "rewarded" if you want to bring change.
- YokoZar 8y agoWell, I didn't come to this thread expecting a eugenics-based argument in favor of medically unsound school start times, but here we are.
- mysterydip 8y agoI was trying to comment on the irony in adapting to our evolution instead of the other way around. I wasn't trying to advocate any solution. Clearly it didn't come out right based on the replies I got.
- Retra 8y agoOur goal is not to control evolution, it is to let people exist within the biological constraints they have.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoDo you realize you're talking about killing people? Evolution happens when the less fit die or otherwise fail to reproduce. If you want to evolve more nocturnal teenagers, the least unpleasant implication is that you want late sleepers to stay sleep-deprived so they'll die in accidents.