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Humans are the omnibeast, and adapt to just about anything. Humans are also more or less blind to demographics, it has to be exceptionaly low or high population
by metalman 1y ago
Humans are the omnibeast, and adapt to just about anything. Humans are also more or less blind to demographics, it has to be exceptionaly low or high population pressure to get them to actualy relocate, and some still exist as huntergatherer nomads, and some likely similar number will live there whole lives inside one ultra densly populated square kilometer.
my point is that "laws" or "rules" of humans can only be written lightly, in pencil, with much smudging as proof of an honest attempt to describe our species
- DrierCycle 1y agoThat's a rosy picture that doesn't fit the evidence. We adapt to a rather small type of liveable surface here, and we destroy the ecology. Humans are simply under the thumb of evolution, and we're maladaptive.
- metalman 1y agohumans are adapted to greater extreams of environments than any other creature on this planet, bar none.humans live from above the permanent snow line, into harsh deserts, ancient comunities living on boats and barges, stilt houses in the oceans,artic tundras, rain forsets, etc, etc, no other single species does this. facts bub, nothing rosy about it. evolution? maladaptive?, ha!, you get to wrong some more, humans are adaptive, and adaptational abilities are the key to evolutionary success, the main feature of which is diversity in survival strategies.
- DrierCycle 1y agoYou're looking at merely the entrance to the ecology, not the long-term, and exits. Evolution covers all aspects, you're cherry picking one. When you know evolution, our culture is probably terminally maladaptive (Boyd/Richerson), so being able to spread to niches beyond normal limits is part of that maladaption, not a successful exploitation of a niche,