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> but evolution often can't make such fine distinctions, so our body triggers inflammatory responses even when it's counterproductive This is just not accurate
by iamthirsty 4y ago
> but evolution often can't make such fine distinctions, so our body triggers inflammatory responses even when it's counterproductive
This is just not accurate, and I'd love to see your source on even the first clause here. because evolution does, in fact, make fine distinctions all over the tree of life.
- Dylan16807 4y agoTo be clear, given what you quoted, your claim is that inflammation is almost never wrong?
- iamthirsty 4y agoMy claim didn't really have to do anything with inflation specifically, just that evolution itself can make fine distinctions.
- Dylan16807 4y agoIt looked like you were calling the whole sentiment wrong, not just the first half (and ignoring the word often). Okay then.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoI imagine the claim was more that evolution gives systems that at the individual level aren't that fussy about the details, not that evolution can't produce highly specialised organisms. Or in other words, ducks imprinting on a dog is a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qidueuojrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qidueuojrc
- naasking 4y ago> because evolution does, in fact, make fine distinctions all over the tree of life. I said evolution often can't make fine distinctions, not that it never can. The inconvenience of improper inflammation was clearly never so great that it impacted reproductive fitness, where death resulting from no inflammation clearly does.