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Frankly, there are no evolution pressure on humans right now. The only "Evolutionary" pressure today is the willingness to procreate, which is generally low acr
by Aperocky 4y ago
Frankly, there are no evolution pressure on humans right now. The only "Evolutionary" pressure today is the willingness to procreate, which is generally low across much of the developed world.
This "pressure" is completely different from evolutionary pressure for virtually every other single species on Earth.
- dmd 4y agoAnyone who makes a statement like that, basically by definition is not thinking in evolutionary timescales. There are always evolutionary pressures, and they are nearly never visible at the kinds of timescales biological individuals operate at.
- rbanffy 4y ago> there are no evolution pressure on humans right now I don't think all humans have the same chance of making successful descendants. Whether that has correlation to genetics is an open question.
- SoftTalker 4y agoIn fact for humans the evolutionary pressure has reversed. We're able to save many people who are too "unfit" to have survived without modern medicine and industrial technology.
- vlovich123 4y agoSaid another way, the fitness criteria for survival has shifted. A reversal implies there’s a single linear direction for evolution when we know there definitely isn’t. That’s why there’s a mix of heights, body builds, intelligences, soft skills like charisma, skin colors, etc etc. In fact, ops claim that we could somehow stop evolutionary pressure is itself bonkers. At that point the evolutionary pressure might become for the traits that enable you to maintain some definition of stasis. Above all else, human culture is never static so there’s always a bias for internal evolutionary pressure even if we manage to control external factors (which even then we’re not able to beyond some point).
- rbanffy 4y agoSurvival of the hottest?