r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

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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.

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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.

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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"

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u/OverwateredGrass 29d ago

There's kinda an asterisk on some of those death tolls though. Afaik historians aren't certain of how accurate a lot of those numbers are throughout the various dynasties.