If evolution guarantees our differences as mutations and responses to the environment, then why do people still obsess over their genetic heritage?>inb4 evolution is fake
because evolution also made us very tribalistic
>>18379408>>18379408Because stupid people that have a need to belong to something greater than themselves are born in every generation. It's why so many obsess about THEIR religion, THEIR country, THEIR race, THEIR choice of clothing/car/food/phone/gun, etc. It makes them feel good about themselves and what they are doing if they think what they are is the best, even when it isnt.
evolution is fake
>>18379408>>18380395What am I reading? If we are not tabula rasa blank slates and genes do affect someone's abilities then someone with illustrious ancestor possesses those same genes and likely has the same potential.If you're proposing something like social darwinism where we divide by individual ability rather than race, just say that, otherwise this thread is redditslop.
>>18379408>evolution guarantees our differences as mutations and responses to the environmentOver tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. And "responses to the environment" is not natural selection, it's Lamarckism which has been thoroughly discredited, it's highly ironic to invoke it and then write ">inb4 evolution is fake" because Lamarckism is exactly the kind of thing people turn to when evolution only applies to the "dunk on creationists" part of their world views, but they find the other parts kinda icky so they try to redefine evolution around falsehoods like you just did.
*yawn*
>>18380550Why not be racist:
>>18380553Only the New Testament
>>18380556Wrong, see Numbers 12
>>18379408But natural selection has very little mutation in it(in fact increase in mutational load is a recent result of modern medicine = dysgenics) and the environment is part of gene-culture co-evolution cycle therefore it does matter.
>>18379408evolution is fakeRead Sanford instead of Dawkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY98io7JH-c
>>18379408Humans are naturally attracted to Kin Selection. That's why so many people are obsessed with 23andMe and AncestryDNA tests, and others are interested in Scientific Racism. According to the uman Genome Project, humans share about 99.9% of their DNA.
>>18380881Natural selection happens after mutation and the variation which natural selection is concerned with can only really come from regulating gene expression. In a way lowering infant mortality is sort of removing a selective pressure but it's not really a selective pressure, if anything that would be like lessening genetic drift.
>>18380917>According to the uman Genome Project, humans share about 99.9% of their DNA.And that little bit of difference is extremely important in the context of civilization and culture. Humans also share 99% of their DNA with chimps.
>>18381484>Natural selection happens after mutationStephen Jay Gould, you were mocked for your ideas the moment you stepped out of human biology and into marine biology because there was no way of politicising the evolution of fish. Please go back to your grave and stop spreading your stupidity over internet.Mutations are relatively rare and mutational load is only going up since the 19th century due to advancements in medicine. The driving factor for human evolution is increased fertility of people with certain traits that are normal to humans, for instance humans naturally have always had enzymes on their saliva to dissolve complex sugars but the prevalence of genes increasing their saturation has gone up since the invention of agriculture. Better access to energy from the newly normalised food source was a benefit to fertility. Any quantitative trait can grow this way. Rare beneficial mutations only "create" new traits, but believe me or not there haven't been that many of them since Homo Erectus. Even logically it doesn't make sense. The lowest homo sapiens population has ever gotten was around 50k. 50k living in small spread out groups. How likely it would be for a beneficial mutation to form on one of them and somehow carrying into the rest of the population? It will be a single individual with single trait that makes him just slightly more fit than others. His children will maybe have it passed on or not.Trying to tie the evolutionary process to mutations is putting a massive speed limit on it, in fact the creationists have reached for this kind of reasoning to "prove" that evolution couldn't have possibly happened.
I just don't want to be the ground on which monkeys walk, Adam and Eve were created from the ground, the monkey is above the ground
