Human evolution has ended.

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Human evolution has ended. Professor 11/09/15 (Mon) 17:41:35 No.161

Humanity is no longer subject to natural selection and the species is not going to change.

sure you might get surface variations, and cultural changes.. Muslims flood into Europe rape the shit out of everyone and the recessive gene for blonde hair disappears from the population.

But the species isn't gong to change all that much.

Consider this:

Eskimos adapted to the Artic by learning how to make Parkas and Igloos. There was no natural selection for them to grow fur because of the human ability to make tools

Take those things away and the Eskimo freezes to death just the same as a Pacific islander would.

And because of sexual selection, even if a successful useful mutation happened it wouldn't get passed on.

An Eskimo is born with blubber and fur, so he can swim in the icy ocean and walk around naked in the snow for hours.

But he is also a repugnant freak that no woman will touch and is driven away from the village. No children for the next step in Eskimo evolution so it's a genetic dead end.

Eskimos transcended environmental pressure as natural selection and they did it without a written language or metal tools.

Professor 11/09/15 (Mon) 19:18:17 No.162

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/17/what-the-inuit-can-tell-us-about-omega-3-fats-and-paleo-diets/

Professor 11/10/15 (Tue) 07:13:36 No.163

>>162

yeah sure,, they have some metabolic variation but they aren't going to break off into another species.

Professor 11/10/15 (Tue) 18:00:04 No.164

>>162

"Those genetic mutations, found in nearly 100 percent of the Inuit, are found in a mere 2 percent of Europeans and 15 percent of Han Chinese,"

Those genes are not exclusive to the Inuit.. and occur in other populations.. could they be the genetic legacy from a common ancestor shared by all humanity instead of a recent adaptation?

I'm not even sure how natural or sexual selection would favor this trait in the Eskimos.

Sure having a lower risk of heart disease in middle age is great for the individual, but it means nothing for the species.

And dropping dead of a heart attack at 40 while very distressing for the individual and his/her friends and family is not an evolutionary disadvantage.

Forty years is ample time to procreate and pass on genes.. which I thought was the entire process driving evolution..

Professor 12/31/15 (Thu) 10:47:33 No.165

>>161

you're assuming that those with more blubber wouldn't be favored by the females based upon your own bias of the ideal man. If the body of the inuit could adapt to it's enviorment, wouldn't the "ideal man" change aswell? Also, since evolution happens slowly, relative to our life time, it's not like one minute theres "normal" looking people and then "repugnant freak"s roaming about. My point is, the "sexual selection" could also change aswell.

Professor 02/09/16 (Tue) 07:24:26 No.168

Damn, the mom is cute.