People get the timescale twisted in their heads, like the existence of the allele has to happen well before the actual event causing selection happens If it didn't happen until then it would be too late, there'd be nothing to select
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The time scale of random mutation, especially in a slow-breeding species like humans, is much, much longer than the time scale of the environmental changes that we "evolve in response to" It's the idea of actively "responding" to the environment that's the biggest wrong thing
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This is the biggest and most serious wrong thing that eugenics advocates think Eliminating what *you currently think of* as "negative" traits in a species and reducing the species' total diversity is not helping out evolution, it's making evolution impossible
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