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True but if you could somehow chart 'robustness of homo sapiens' over time, it seems plausible that modern medicine and technology has and will continue to infl
by jcims 3y ago
True but if you could somehow chart 'robustness of homo sapiens' over time, it seems plausible that modern medicine and technology has and will continue to influence it. Little things like food allergies that may have a genetic component seem to be able to persist now that we have effective mitigations for them.
As a counterpoint, transportation is a major feature of modern technology that has resulted in a lot more mixing of heritable traits that could previously have been regionally isolated. That's probably a net good thing for robustness.
Kind of pointless mental exercise but something I ponder on occasionally.