Sorry for the external link, but Lemmy wouldn’t allow me to post the whole text. As mentioned at the start, feel free to contribute or debate as you see fit, I might update this post later on.
Sorry for the external link, but Lemmy wouldn’t allow me to post the whole text. As mentioned at the start, feel free to contribute or debate as you see fit, I might update this post later on.
This is definitely a perspective I hadn’t considered before. Even from a straight-up “genetic fitness” perspective, specifically selecting or engineering traits we think are always useful would end up being a little like a mild form of inbreeding, wouldn’t it? In the same way that “pure” dog breeds almost inevitably end up with specific crippling health problems while mutts are relatively healthy overall.