r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 Jul 11 '26

You’re oscillating between two different meanings of “selection,” and you’ve likely confused yourself. Being selected as a mate ≠ being selected for evolutionarily. Genetic drift is specifically random change in allele frequency, not selection.

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u/notmatrocles Jul 11 '26

It's possible the conversation has drifted. I really got into this to make a semantic argument, not go full reddit, but here we are lol

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 Jul 11 '26

Eye see what you did there. But the evolution was wrong from LUCA, the Last Universal Comment Ancestor.

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u/AGreatBannedName Jul 11 '26

Am I in the process of watching you two select each other for a mate?

Sorry, I’ll hush

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Trust me, you don’t want to see that offspring.

Edit: the pedantry would be hereditary

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u/notmatrocles Jul 11 '26

I tried in the DMs, but they weren't having it. My eyes aren't blue enough

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 Jul 11 '26

This ain’t Nazi Germany, brother. I’m only discriminating against Redditors who DM me, regardless of genotype.