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karmakaze ◴[29 Sep 25 02:51 UTC] No.45409952[source]▶

I'd thought that by living indoors and in otherwise controlled environments that there's not really much evolutionary pressure in any particular direction. Higher intelligence isn't a specific requirement to have (many) children live healthy lives.

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1. poulpy123 ◴[29 Sep 25 07:18 UTC] No.45411119[source]▶

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Evolution still happens, but in any case if autism is a side effect of the genes that make us intelligent, they are here from much before than central heating and plumbing

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A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans