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RE: Mutational Load is as Dangerous a Long-Term Threat as Climate Change. Why Can’t We Discuss it?

in #evolution2 years ago

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Seriously though. What seems more likely?

Random mutation plus natural selection increased the information in the genome right up until we started observing it; at which point the entire process reversed.

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Mutational load has been steadily increasing since humanity started with a complete set of information thousands of years ago.

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Or that civilization & technology have made us weaker. This would produce the outcome we see, where overall fitness increased until the dawn of civilization, when it began to decline.