And neither did vitamin D supplements, although the need to consume vitamin-D-rich foods like dairy to stay healthy is theorized to be why white people evolved lactose tolerance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
But to be serious about it for a second, even pale people who've spent most of their lives working outdoors in the sun rarely get skin cancer early enough that it affects their chance at having kids From an evolutionary standpoint that's all that matters
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Replying to @Woman4W @LizardOrman and
I mean, in the sense that water flowing downhill has a "goal", sure, and in the same sense that if the direction the land slopes suddenly changes then the river's course and its eventual "goal" change just as suddenly
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Replying to @Woman4W @arthur_affect and
Evolution doesn't have a goal but it especially doesn't have an "eventual" goal.
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Evolution seems to keep on changing its mind! Like the skin cancer thing -- about five hundred years ago it was like "Psych you guys I wanted you to be white all along and it turns out if you aren't things are gonna get rough"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Zanzanar and
I would bet humans have been born consistently with an appendix serving little purpose other than to occasionally kill us as well. I wonder what evolution's "eventual goal" is for that little gem. Naturally-occurring surprise excuses for a family reunion?
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Replying to @Shjade @arthur_affect and
The issue I have with this statement is you are presupposing that it always never had a purpose however it may have had a purpose while we were still eating bark or roots and when a diet change occured like when we started eating meat and our brains grew our diet changed
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Replying to @TbD92549563 @Shjade and
Maybe not "started eating meat" that's probably wrong. I'll say we started hunting with tools so meat became a larger part of our diet which got us away from bark and roots and the appendix was no longer necessary?
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The great thing about this layman's understanding of evolution is it empowers people to just constantly make shit up like this on almost no evidence and be taken seriously ("Well there must be SOME reason we have it")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shjade and
It's not the reason it's that the process is there at all...
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Replying to @TbD92549563 @arthur_affect and
By what non-random process did evolution force people who have testicles to also have nipples?
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