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by 77897555 3631 days ago
Clinically speaking, perhaps biological evolution had a chance of dealing with this.

Now, biological evolution has been replaced by "social evolution". A trait of physically debilitating condition, that is treatable, is no longer a reproduction fullstop. Those genes carry on. What genes will peter out are the absence of skills that are employable and not being able to find a partner because of that. Of course this is simplifying it to a large extent.

The human population will drop over the next millenia. Whether that is because of waterwars, lack of food, natural calamities, or space colonisation is left as an exercise for the future generations.

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Unemployed people have plenty of kids. Not sure what's being selected for, but it's not that
>Not sure what's being selected for

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