• laziestflagellant [they/them]
    hexbear
    48
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    6 months ago

    Shoutouts to the educators trying to instill into people that 'natural selection' doesn't magically turn animals into some mythical super strong super smart optimized ubermensch creatures after being cooked in the oven long enough, it just optimizes for animals who are able to successfully propagate enough to replace the dead.

    'Natural selection' could 'optimize' towards hominids that almost universally die of health complications around 25 as long as they are better at surviving to maturity and cumming in each other and popping out a bunch of babies to continue the cycle.

    • NPa [he/him]
      hexbear
      33
      6 months ago

      If the eugenicist model was correct, we would be overrun by super-intelligent and super-strong baby turtles within days, since only like 1 in 10.000 survive to adulthood.

      • Ildsaye [they/them]
        hexbear
        12
        6 months ago

        Perhaps the turtles are hiding their power and biding their time. Those shells could be hiding Hamas bases with WMD by now for all we know

      • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
        hexbear
        5
        6 months ago

        If the eugenicist model was correct then we would all become crabs as it is clearly the most efficient form

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation