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by ifyoubuildit 529 days ago
Beneficial kinda just means "leads to more procreation" right?

So if bigger brains meant people reproducing more, our brains would get bigger to the point that most births are cesarean or something.

I do wonder what happens when we eventually evolve to a point where we can't survive without more and more advanced technology.

A lot of people who would have died off before reproducing 200 years ago now don't, which is of course incredible for us. But what are effects of that 100/1000 years down the line?

Presumably we'll have plenty of more immediately pressing issues over that time frame.

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It is interesting from a space-faring species perspective. By the time we can embark to other planets/asteroids our biology might require us to lug around significantly more technology just to survive.
Check in with various farm animals, they are already there.