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There is no reason behind evolution, attributing any outcome to an evolutionary benefit is complete folly. Literally the only answer to an evolutionary outcome
by yieldcrv 2y ago
There is no reason behind evolution, attributing any outcome to an evolutionary benefit is complete folly. Literally the only answer to an evolutionary outcome is that a mutant nutted in a bunch of people. Everything after that is also happenstance. If we are to accept that societies with grandparents propagated some genes better, then we have to do the same about cancer, as if its not a complete random fuckup that we have short telomeres or whatever else. When a different explanation fits the model better: cancer tends to occur after reproductive years and therefore wasnt weeded out of the population by evolution, which would apply to people that live long enough to be grandparents too.
- WalterBright 2y agoIt's no different from water behind a dam that pushes against a weakness, and the trickle through it enlarges the hole and the water then tears the dam apart. There is no sentience or reason behind it, but that's what happens. Life doesn't have a goal, but life that survives and propagates becomes the only life there is. Life also evolves into local optimums that are dead-ends. Sentience has helped humans propagate their genes, but mosquitoes are even more successful.