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by nradov 220 days ago
For better or worse, modern sanitation, medical care, industrial farming, and predator control have virtually eliminated the effects of natural selection on human genetics. Any changes going forward will inevitably be mostly artificial.
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Well then natural selection has spoken. No need to select when it provides no survival benefits.
There is no need to select... until there is
Healthcare is part of the environment an organism lives in…