• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    We’ve already adapted via medical science and technology. There’s no more evolutionary pressure to biologically adapt.

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      That’s not true. Illness and injury still have an effect on reproduction. Someone who spends their life fighting chronic disease is going to have a worse time with sexual selection and reproduction. Plus a lot of characteristics are social in nature, with kin selection being a big part of human evolution, so those who are less able to contribute outside of their direct reproduction still detrimentally affect their genes’ survival and propagation.