Are We Still Evolving?

[Grumpy Cat]

Ive never been on a diet in my life and I dont think I'll ever be. I eat a crapload of junk food, sweets, meat, chicken, pork with lots of salt and grease.

I have good genes.

Actually, those are bad genes, technically. Humans gain weight (and prefer junk), to store fat as an energy source for times when food will not be available.

I don't like much junk food, except chocolate. Those are bad genes as well.

But, I have this friend who drinks nothing but prune juice and eats wheatgrass and all this nasty stuff - and complains about how nasty it is - because he's so "health obsessed". It's actually quite annoying. And this guy is attracted to me, I will never date a man like that.

[Black Sun Dimension]

Bad genes my buttocks: I can stay in shape while eating greasy shit at the same time. That's a luxury not many people have, and it's a big plus in our society, where staying slim is a godsend.

[Loddfafner]

Bad genes my buttocks: I can stay in shape while eating greasy shit at the same time. That's a luxury not many people have, and it's a big plus in our society, where staying slim is a godsend.

A poor diet will catch up with you later in life.

[Black Sun Dimension]

A poor diet will catch up with you later in life.

It's not a daily thing, more like once a week. I eat at home most of the time.

[TheCelt]

Like me: I can eat tons of food but im unable to gain weight.



Ive never been on a diet in my life and I dont think I'll ever be. I eat a crapload of junk food, sweets, meat, chicken, pork with lots of salt and grease.

its called being 22. time will change that.

[Black Sun Dimension]

its called being 22. time will change that.

My brother is 30 and he is just like me in that regard.

[TheCelt]

i was half joking, but it is a fact that your metabolism will slow down as you get older. i was the same way until about 3-4 years ago and now it takes a lot of work to maintain a level of fitness that came very easy in my 20's.

[Phil75231]

Unfortunately, humans have not evolved near as fast as our technology has. We are still built to be hunter-gatherers, not office workers. Hence why we still have the genetic predisposition to obesity and a hard-wired preference for fatty high calorie foods. This was key to survival in those times.

At least as fascinating will be how human psychology will change - particularly how much value we put on peace, accommodation and cooperation vs power, brute force (or capacity thereof), and aggressiveness. Back 10,000 BC our most powerful weapons were arrows, stone spears thrown with a jai alai like stick to increase speed further, and fire.

By the industrial revolution, large wars got even more destructive (generally). By well into the Cold War, thousands of nukes on both sides (although only a few people had their finger on the button and they had a lot of failsafes to prevent accidental launch). Today? A gene sequencer plus Internet-obtained info about diseases? All the above could easily kill billions if used to their full potential and extent. Even worse, more and more people are getting the expertise to sequence those genes and manufacture deadlier germs - from what I hear for no more than the price of three fresh-out-of-the-factory BMWs (certainly much cheaper than nuke bomb plants)

Yet, after all this, we're still the same old human beings?

Yep, we gotta either evolve or die, or we'll be done in by our own technology (that genie's long out the bottle now!)