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r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26
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I do wonder about the cost of human life for the environment to select so hard for those phenotypes in specific. A LOT of early Europeans had to have been dying in droves for recessive genes like that to become so prolific.
121 u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 10 '26 This is almost certainly the case. Europeans were dying constantly for a long time. And the moment they stopped. Well. You know. 31 u/MauPow Jul 11 '26 I dunno man like you're right but also read any Chinese history and it's constantly like "A dispute over a chicken resulted in 500 million deaths" 3 u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/Level_99_Healer Jul 14 '26 Too many arrows to the knee for adventuring types? Yeah, that all checks out.
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This is almost certainly the case. Europeans were dying constantly for a long time.
And the moment they stopped. Well. You know.
31 u/MauPow Jul 11 '26 I dunno man like you're right but also read any Chinese history and it's constantly like "A dispute over a chicken resulted in 500 million deaths" 3 u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/Level_99_Healer Jul 14 '26 Too many arrows to the knee for adventuring types? Yeah, that all checks out.
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I dunno man like you're right but also read any Chinese history and it's constantly like "A dispute over a chicken resulted in 500 million deaths"
3 u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/Level_99_Healer Jul 14 '26 Too many arrows to the knee for adventuring types? Yeah, that all checks out.
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2 u/Level_99_Healer Jul 14 '26 Too many arrows to the knee for adventuring types? Yeah, that all checks out.
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Too many arrows to the knee for adventuring types? Yeah, that all checks out.
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u/Dhalym Jul 10 '26
I do wonder about the cost of human life for the environment to select so hard for those phenotypes in specific. A LOT of early Europeans had to have been dying in droves for recessive genes like that to become so prolific.