mutations, and overall those would be deleterious. I wonder how much selective pressure (deaths and selective breeding)
Consider some isolated population, and pretend that all breeding is random and everyone lives to age 80. Each generation you'd get more
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you'd have to put in just to maintain genetic quality.
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Selection like that is never pleasant,but it's unavoidable. At best, some people get shut out of mating. At worst, more people die young.
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I don't think it is possible to give a %, because it depends on a lot of things, but yes, selection is necessary.
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yes, lots of factors. It's more of a qualitative question to me
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In the long run, either we impose eugenic reproduction control on people or we go back to high childhood mortality.
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yep. I'd prefer the former
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is why Klingons are so hardcore
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