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Covid has been the ultimate confirmation: we're in the post-truth age. Lets hope we'll be able to look back on this period in history, and evolve to be better
by isoprophlex 6y ago
Covid has been the ultimate confirmation: we're in the post-truth age.
Lets hope we'll be able to look back on this period in history, and evolve to be better than this.
- magicsmoke 6y agoThe dark side of this is that evolution works by culling the unfit to survive. Might want to choose another term (or maybe that's exactly what you intended)
- Droobfest 6y agoOr the unlucky.
- technothrasher 6y agoevolution works by culling the unfit to survive No it doesn't. Evolution occurs due to change in allele frequency in a population over time. Relative death rate of certain organisms in a given environment is certainly a mechanism for this change in frequency, but it is not necessary for evolution to occur.
- arcticbull 6y agoEither (a) death of the unfit or (b) inability of the unfit to reproduce are the core drivers of evolution. They're the negative feedback. [edit] Rather, not the core drivers but the core direction-setters.
- chadlavi 6y agoAt this point I just hope we're able to look back on this period in history at all.