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We're always evolving. We are at this very moment evolving to adapt to an environment full of microplastics, to eating ultraprocessed foods, to look at screens for most of the day, etc.
It's too bad that evolution has some sort of time delay and only makes the next generations more adapted to the current environment, instead of the future environment, so people won't be adapted to a hotter climate, more intense climatic events, to deal with food and scarcity, more uv intensity, more conflicts, and so many other things until it's too late.
Just informing that this post contains irony and is mostly a joke
Not only the next generation. There are many genes that activate or deactivate based on environmental factors.
There's even a term for such genes... A term I forget, but it exists and experts are very aware. Of course they aren't going to have as massive as an effect as generational drift, but they can still have significant impact.
Doubt any type of effect can keep up with humans trashing the planet for profit, but... ...
Epigenetics :o
That's not how evolution works...
It's random chance, there's nothing I creasing the next generations odds, and most adaptions will have a negative effect
It's not ironic...
You either fundamentally don't know what you're talking about, or are just repeating common misunderstandings as "just a joke bro"?
Isn't it? There are those who get will sick from micro plastics/ultra processed food or turn Hikikomori from computer entertainment which would reduce their reproduction.
Yeah..those with some genetic cocktail that allows them to survive the new "standard" better will continue to breed more, thereby pushing the species in a forward, yet very slightly different direction.
Thats evolution. Dunno what trip that other dudes on.