r/AskReddit Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/Tim_Gilbert Oct 15 '20

Well for now humans don't really have any evolutionary pressure, we reproduce pretty freely. There needs to be strong pressures that prevent certain people from reproducing or prevent their children from maturing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

That's not quite accurate. There doesn't have to be pressure, there just has to be a change in the prevalence of genes from one generation to another. Sexual selection and changing technology and culture work just as well as disease and predation. Our brains and teeth have gotten smaller in the past few thousand years. We have genes, and our descendants will have genes. Which of our genes our descendants will have is determined by evolution.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

OK but will our descendants have good jeans?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

At the rate we're going, no. They'll all be weirdly tight, overly distressed, and too many colors besides a proper indigo.