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Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020) by badosu on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:46PM (#39074633)
It is required some process of natural selection for mutations to be selected against, do we know how this occurs with the modern homo sapiens?
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Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020) by MrVandemar on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:38PM (#39075302)
We have plenty of modern day selection pressure. Watch the first 2 minutes of Idiocracy.
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Re:How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020) by pfdietz on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:02PM (#39075423)
Unless you think our ancestral biology is perfectly adapted to the modern world, evolution will be acting. Indeed, evolution is probably occurring on humanity at a breakneck pace right now, because our environment has changed so radically.
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