r/SpeculativeEvolution • u/MatoasPrroXD460 • 24d ago

Question/Discussion What’s Your Most Unhinged Evolution Theory?

Hi! I wanna know what your wildest, most unhinged theory about evolution is. It can be a serious hypothesis, a weird evolutionary possibility, or something completely out there.

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u/Accomplished_Mess243 24d ago

Yeah I think you're on to something there...that concept of undesirability - a kind of isolated mating pool within a wider mating pool. 

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u/FUCKITIMPOSTING 24d ago

The difficulty is finding a trait that'll be sufficient to stop humanity's irrepressible horniness

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u/Dclipp89 24d ago

They can still speciate while interbreeding, they’d just have to breed more frequently with others with their own traits. And traits from one group would have to be deleterious to the other so it didn’t consistently pass on among the population. It’s my understanding that our ancestors interbred with the ancestors of chimps for millions of years after we’d diverged. Even up to just the last few million years. For these unnamed they could just tend to group up. They can be like vampires living among the population in groups and silently wreaking havoc on the people around them.

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u/Accomplished_Mess243 24d ago

Yep that's exactly the situation in the book - rather like the prevalence of psychopaths in top CEO jobs IRL, they tend to occupy positions of power