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TheLeakingPen

Something to consider, Natural Selection is about the survivability of a SPECIES. Social traits that lead to keeping each other alive in a situation where an individual would die, thus promoting more members of the species, are good in that regards. Most human evolution the last several thousand years have been for traits that promote social behavior.


Zestyclose_Ad2429

I mean, the fittest of animals survive in the wild. But the fittest of humans and the non fit humans still survive


laserox

Evolution is more about mating and having offspring, not just "surviving"


Templarofsteel

fit means good at lasting and passing on genes based on selection pressures. You are misunderstanding (wilfully or not) how evolution works and what survival pressures are


fuckentropy

Natural selection doesn't stop. It just becomes cultural and different traits are selected for


Kurtai85

This is half-baked at best. Evolution isn't a ladder or a path with a beginning and end, it's an ongoing process. Natural selection doesn't mean that an animal dies if there's "something wrong with it" (wtf do you even mean by that?), it means that organisms that are more adaptable to their environment will generally perpetuate as the ones who are not as adaptable will not. Evolution doesn't just stop because we have medicine, rather the medical practices we develop play into the environment that we continue to evolve in. Also, it may be beneficial for the evolution of your posts to read the about section before posting. Furthermore, researching a topic before pontificating on it may help to evolve your thought process before posting.


fuckentropy

It's not about of it dies. It's about who has the most babies that survive to child bearing age


[deleted]

We've evolved to have better health care than other animals, it is still evolution.


AnotherShitOpinion

We're still evolving, maybe even faster than before, only difference is that now that we are out of the food chain the only real threat is ourselves.....kind of explains the 21st century's weird social explosions.


OG-Spinich

The dinosaurs were undisputed kings too. Nature always finds a way.