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Certainly our environment changes very fast but assuming all adaptation has to happen in the genetic space is fallacious. Humans are already the most generalist
by acituan 6y ago
Certainly our environment changes very fast but assuming all adaptation has to happen in the genetic space is fallacious. Humans are already the most generalist species ever existed; even at the most basic level we can live in environments ranging from deserts to arctic, just using our bodies we can locomote through walking, climbing, swimming, and on top of that our offsprings take the most time to raise because so much of our adaptive machinery is installed memetically on that generalist hardware (genes). Besides, even the society we change is part of our niche construction, so we do have influence over it. Maybe not huge as single individuals, but that industry making money off distracting people is still our own making, not a "force of nature", and most of what is done by us can be undone by us.