ceasarlegsvin@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?
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6 months agoNatural selection is an agent that runs contrary to the thing which is currently out-competing natural selection, that being big brain thinkering
E.g., if a cancer research scientist dies from a weak heart, that will reduce future life expectancy more than it will increase it
Which is the whole point of my comment…