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Has modern medication thwarted evolution of human health?
Antibiotics, medication, and longer lived lives seem to be a trend during the past 50 years.
Compared to the last several thousand years of human life, no effective medication helped humans survive as such. Only the healthiest of the healthy had a chance, which meant healther offspring in the long run.
Our future offspring is “too many”, in proportion to our longer survival rate. Which means we need to have less children.
We are on a path of weaker people, tinkering with Mother Nature. Sure, it normal to help the sick, but to force a brain dead siamese-twin baby to live 10 years on a machine is insane. Mother Nature would not allow that. OKAY, bad example, but you gotta see some point of what I am saying here.
At some point, our bodies may become “lazy” to heal itself. In history, the peasants were always healthier than the rich. For many reasons, such as exercise, and eating “dirty food” or “more natural food”, boosting the body’s immune system.
To a certain degree you are correct, and to a certain degree incorrect.
It is true that modern medicine (not just medications) does help many humans survive and reproduce who might not have done so without medicine.
I myself would have died at about six months old had it not been for some surgery done on me as a newborn to correct a defect in my digestive tract. So I may go on to have children that have that same defect.
But on the other hand, a “brain dead siamese-twin baby” is not going to produce offspring, even if we do keep it alive. I.e. the question of whether to keep it alive has nothing to do with evolution.
However, the biggest point is that evolution can’t be “thwarted”. It is not something that has a goal or a purpose.
Yes, in the long run this may cause humans to lose some of their natural ability to fight disease on its own … but I hope you’re not suggesting that we stop advances in medicine. When we are sick, we heal each other if we can. That’s what we do.
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