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Originally posted by Emperor Ashtar
That's the thing, why is it considered artificial for humans breeders to select traits? Are we not a product of Natural Selection like some other animals?
Because, especially in modern times, we don't use the same mechanisms and we generally don't select wholistically. Genetic engineering, industrialized selection...such things are not natural processes, despite the fact that one of nature's children are doing it.
Originally posted by Nellinator
Bottleneck my man = randomness... Does that count as natural selection though? Or is that entirely seperate?
It depends. A bottle neck is where the definition of fittest changes so rapidly that many speices can't adapt.
Take the Black Plague...the gene that gave people immunity was probably not a real essential characteristic, but it became one. Thus, those who had it reproduce. Random people may have it, but the process of seleciton is not random.
If we look at a severe drought...its kind of random, but individal factors still influence how long you can survive...metabolism, heat tolerance, perspiration, cooling behaviors...etc.
If we look at a meteor impact...likely its pretty damn random.
But there is still a threashold.
The more physical and the more extreme a bottleneck is...the more random it gets.
But its not necessarily always random...If i go whack everyone over the head with a baseball bat...its likely that someones skull is a little bit thicker and that might give them an edge. 😂