Apparently, despite the amount of coddling the human race receives from its safety-conscious societies, the human genome is still evolving, finding 9% of our genes evolving rapidly, and another 13% showing signs of negative selection.
This cheers me immensely, as I'd figured that by this point we were simply breeding for brutality. But then, I'm a cynical sort.
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Yes, well...
Who's to say we're not still breeding for brutality? Sure, the genome is still evolving, but do we have any way of knowing for sure that said evolution isn't going to make us MORE brutal as a species?
Enjoy your meal!
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Hello, My name is Linus Torvalds. You killed my process. Prepare to die.
Cheerful thought
"Blame it on the revolution and shoot a couple of peasants?"
"At this rate, we're soon going to run out of peasants."