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SebastianPCynic's avatar

Of course there will have to be compromises. We can’t just go back to the Stone age but we have to incorporate more organic ways of living.

On your comment that we have evolved quite a bit, we actually haven't. There is virtually no difference between a anatomically modern human from upwards of a 100,000 years ago and somebody from 2025. The differences are almost exclusively cultural, stemming mainly from technological advancement.

Eric Edmeades's avatar

While 'quite a bit' is naturally a relative term, it is true nonetheless.

Various 'modern' evolutions have included skin, hair, and eye color, extended lactase production, and a suite of subtle metabolic changes. I have a Substack in production on these more recent developments shortly.

Patricia Finney's avatar

Yes, this is true and it's happening now. What a brilliant clarifying statement - that we're suffering from Nature Deprivation Syndrome and we didn't originally evolve for where and how we live now.

There's a slight problem in that most people (me, for instance) wouldn't survive for long on the African savannah so there will have to be some compromises. Modern humans have devolved quite a lot.

But you have to start somewhere.