Dr. Melissa Ilardo
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah, I mean, it definitely, you know, we have an ancestor. I don't remember exactly the name off the top of my head, but I have an issue with this diagram because it's, you know, it's the classic depiction of evolution. Right. But it really suggests kind of like I was saying before, this trajectory and we are the pinnacle of it. You know, we've achieved this thing.
Yeah, I mean, it definitely, you know, we have an ancestor.
I don't remember exactly the name off the top of my head, but I have an issue with this diagram because it's, you know, it's the classic depiction of evolution.
Right.
But it really suggests kind of like I was saying before, this trajectory and we are the pinnacle of it.
You know, we've achieved this thing.
And I think it also fits with this, you know, concept of survival of the fittest, which I think is, you know, also a little bit misleading in that, you know, it's not about the most fit.
And I think it also fits with this, you know, concept of survival of the fittest, which I think is, you know, also a little bit misleading in that, you know, it's not about the most fit. It's about the best fit. So evolution doesn't care how fit you are in the way we think of fitness. It only cares how you fit with your environment.
It's about the best fit.
So evolution doesn't care how fit you are in the way we think of fitness.
It only cares how you fit with your environment.
So, you know, the idea that evolution is driving any species, but especially ours, towards some optimum I think is inherently flawed.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, most mutations are deleterious. Most mutations cause problems. And so we actually don't even see most mutations because they kill essentially the offspring before it even becomes a fetus. So most mutations are happening in a way that we're not even seeing them.
I mean, most mutations are deleterious.
Most mutations cause problems.
And so we actually don't even see most mutations because they kill essentially the offspring before it even becomes a fetus.
So most mutations are happening in a way that we're not even seeing them.
So to wait for something that comes up that's actually beneficial can take forever because you have to have exactly the right thing. The genome's huge. So when those changes are happening, for it to not only happen in the right place, but to not cause problems takes a really long time.
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