• laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Shoutouts to the educators trying to instill into people that ‘natural selection’ doesn’t magically turn animals into some mythical super strong super smart optimized ubermensch creatures after being cooked in the oven long enough, it just optimizes for animals who are able to successfully propagate enough to replace the dead.

    ‘Natural selection’ could ‘optimize’ towards hominids that almost universally die of health complications around 25 as long as they are better at surviving to maturity and cumming in each other and popping out a bunch of babies to continue the cycle.