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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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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