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by mysterydip 2827 days ago
Wouldn't accommodating them make evolution slower? Those that have traits making them able to wake up earlier should be "rewarded" if you want to bring change.
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Well, I didn't come to this thread expecting a eugenics-based argument in favor of medically unsound school start times, but here we are.
I was trying to comment on the irony in adapting to our evolution instead of the other way around. I wasn't trying to advocate any solution. Clearly it didn't come out right based on the replies I got.
Do you realize you're talking about killing people? Evolution happens when the less fit die or otherwise fail to reproduce. If you want to evolve more nocturnal teenagers, the least unpleasant implication is that you want late sleepers to stay sleep-deprived so they'll die in accidents.
Our goal is not to control evolution, it is to let people exist within the biological constraints they have.