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Caleb James DeLisle · 4w
Well, it depends on how far you want to stretch it. If you adopt the "humans are unique metaphysical entities not subject to evolution like animals are", I obviously can't PROVE you wrong more than I...
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@Caleb James DeLisle @Phantasm @☦️KingOfWhiteAmerica☦️ @Austere Aeronautical Scholar Zeppelin @Hoss "Sneed (Formerly Chuck)” Delgado I think there's even solid indications that just the "meat suit" if you want to call it that, suffers from all the same shortcomings and foibles of evolution- even before talking about the Soul!

Sunburns, for example. On Whites, it's a result of relatively thin skin and no pigmentation to absorb UV before it can cause critical DNA damage; this is detected by RNA damage, which will lead to apoptosis. You can see a clear gradient of pigmentation on the "more pigment better" spectrum, all the way down to the equator (before the age of jet travel really fucked up the distribution), which is the solution that the human strain has broadly settled on; REGARDLESS of whether or not that's the best answer! (It's not; we need a protein that can more rapidly recover photonic damage, which might end up coming from photolyases).

Evolution appears to be broadly driven by incremental selection and improvement, followed by extraordinary leaps and chasm-crosses on the whims of fate, and there's a dozen or so examples of human molecular-and-superstructures which indicate this is the case.
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Caleb James DeLisle · 4w
I don't remember the exact numbers here, but I'm gonna say actual mutations account for maybe 3% of evolution, the HEAVY LIFTER is random recombination. Everyone has 2 copies of their DNA, one from each parent - but every parent has 2 copies, so sperm and egg creation is randomly selecting each gene...
Hoss "Sneed (Formerly Chuck)” Delgado · 4w
"Fitness" is more accurate than "improvement". Adaptations to fit one specific environment can be detrimental outside of it. See: sickle cell trait, confers malaria resistance in regions where malaria is a persistent selection catalyst, but also causes debilitating genetic disorder when children are...