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I wish natural selection did a better job at evolving human emotion.

as it is, we're pretty fucked up. thumbs are pretty cool, and our brains are interesting, but seriously, evolution didn't do too well with emotions. the highest times don't last quite as long as the lowest times, and they're never at quite an extreme either.

but, i suppose, natural selection isn't actively selecting genes, the genes are selected through their viability in their inhabiting body within the group. that's what natural selection is all about. and a part of this is probably that emotions don't matter to reproduction, so it's really not something that necessarily benefits or detriments genetic replication. I suppose that's a good argument against the pseudo-scientific claims of new-age nonsense like 'indigo children'.

It is proposed that indigo children are some sort of 'next-step' in human evolution. But I don't think that increased empathy or some ability to read minds is really something that can be produced by natural selection. I also don't see it benefiting humans ability to reproduce.

more likely we're going to evolve better disease immunities or resistance to cancer from the suns UV before we start rapidly evolving telepathy out of fucking nowhere, or indeed better ways of dealing with tough emotions. I may be wrong, but I think that sort of falls outside the scope of what genes control.