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Anne Whateley posted:Diabetes has been identified since at least 1500 BC. Up until the 1920s we had zero effective treatments for it. But type 1 diabetes didn't die out over those 3,500 years. To add to this, evolution doesn't lead to organisms becoming "fitter" in some objective sense. It just leads to them being able to survive in their respective environments. If humans are able to live and reproduce, they are "fit." While I guess you could, in theory, try to promote certain traits through selective breeding, that wouldn't have anything to do with evolution or the "fitness" of our species.
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God dammit, I hate it when people like that one poster in this thread misunderstand how evolution works. It's not like there's this great force called Nature and it intends to craft us into the Most Fit human. If humans are able to live and reproduce, they have been deemed fit by "nature" (which includes humans themselves). It makes no sense to say that "nature" would have killed off certain people, since there's a wide variety of different environments on our planet and the fact that many of those environments have been influenced by humans is no different than them being influenced by any other organism. If you just like the idea of attempting to make humans stronger/smarter/more disease resistant then say so, but that has nothing to do with evolution* (and it's highly morally questionable). * well I guess it does, but only in the sense that any change in an organisms traits does Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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