Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by DiogenesKynikos on Monday December 30, 2019 @02:54PM
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Any evidence that we are successfully eliminating natural selection? A huge amount of selection is for things that aren't immediately obvious, or more subtle: the immune system, beauty, personality traits the other sex finds attractive, etc.
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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by hutzlibu on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:37AM
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And ... suicide and self-destructive behavior etc. I know. I did not say, we eliminated selectors already, but working towards it.
Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo...
by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:33AM
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The range of selectors we can actually affect is extremely limited. There's a vast range of selectors we can't affect. In the grand scheme of things, we've hardly made a dent. That's my point.
To back this up, at least this paper claims that the idea that natural selection is being referred inoperative in modern human populations is widely rejected by evolutionary biologists.[1] Changes in human society have actually accelerated selection for certain types of traits that we know of. For example, genes that help people deal with our increasingly unhealthy diet may be strongly selected for.