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Are your genes inferior? Then evolution will replace you over time. That's how it works.
by inpdx 5y ago
Are your genes inferior? Then evolution will replace you over time. That's how it works.
- vixen99 5y agoYes, calling them inferior or superior is merely another way of describing survival. Why are the genes inferior? Because they don't survive. Why don't they survive? Because ... Sometimes supposedly inferior genes work better in a specific environment as is the case with sickle cell anaemia where mutation resulting in under-performing haemoglobin confers some resistance to malaria.
- DeathArrow 5y ago>Yes, calling them inferior or superior is merely another way of describing survival. Genes survived either because some populations were aided by geography, as in they weren't challenged by foreign populations or because the individuals were smarter. The modern humans are trying to reverse how nature worked until the recent past but I'm not sure it will work. Competition will always win.
- DeathArrow 5y ago>Are your genes inferior? What do you mean by inferior genes? Not being adapted to the climate? Being predisposed to some diseases? Having a low IQ? Not enough physical strength?
- estaseuropano 5y agoLess adapted to the environment, which of course can include all of the above.
- ptsneves 5y agoNone, all the other hypothesis are second order effects. Weak genes are genes that do not reproduce.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAnd yet humans have left natural selection behind on many issues. Not only by warning labels on bleach.
- est31 5y agoNatural selection is still very much alive, in various forms. Economic reasons (can you afford a car with 3 children's seats?), sexual selection, etc.
- raxxorrax 5y agoIt still exists of course. But in that case education is by numbers quite a negative trait for example. Being rich too maybe. Sexual selection is probably not even a significant factor because you mostly always find an idiot to team up with.
- yobbo 5y ago> education is by numbers quite a negative trait So much so that education of women is considered a solution to overpopulation in underdeveloped countries.
- throwaway37263 5y agoPalestinian genes must be abysmal.
- yobbo 5y agoConcept of inferior/superior is rather naive applied to modern humans. For example, exposing a particular population to a specific challenge will select for particular traits which might cause slower population growth. For example, alcoholism might be the side effect some genetics that enable survival in certain situations that might seem irrelevant until they occur. And modern humans let culture/politics be deciding factors for reproduction. This is causing particular selection pressures that are not understood and can not be evaluated until far in the future.