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HaZZarD
May 18, 2020 at 9:11 pm
Thanks.
More Evolutionary Perspectives please, in all disciplines
psurviver
May 18, 2020 at 9:12 pm
Okay! And?
Blue Blue
May 18, 2020 at 9:15 pm
Want a BULLETPROOFED kid marry a Mexican
Abdul Ibrahim
May 18, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Why would anybody dislike such a video
AvatarFanUno
May 19, 2020 at 8:47 am
A lot of people have this channel hate-subscribed just to brigade it. You see it a lot on topics like feminism, culture, politics, identity and some others.
Aaron Rosenberg
May 19, 2020 at 3:35 pm
@Errant Cognition Because you need her size to detract from the validity of her talk.
Brendan Morin
May 19, 2020 at 4:53 pm
Errant Cognition what has she talked about that has literally anything to do with weight?? And I’d love to see what you look like lmao, bc I know for a fact no decent looking person would so insecure that they feel the need to body shame a woman on the internet XD plus I’m sure she’s contributed more to humanity in the last MONTH of her life than you could ever hope to contribute in your whole life
Errant Cognition
May 19, 2020 at 9:50 pm
@Aaron Rosenberg because obese people shouldn’t be lecturing about health
Errant Cognition
May 19, 2020 at 9:51 pm
@Brendan Morin Entertaining of you to conjecture lol, you have no idea what I do. Most fit people hate fat people. All they do is make excuses and pretend it’s not their fault.
Balancing Life
May 18, 2020 at 9:30 pm
Watch from. 3:04 there is your answer!
Ozaka joute
May 18, 2020 at 9:36 pm
Thank me later guys..thank you
Crazeee Nigrifagritard
May 18, 2020 at 9:46 pm
I like Lara Durgavich. The Tay Sachs thing reminds me of Watson’s Secret of Life, great read.
Leanne Jacobson
May 19, 2020 at 7:36 am
Hey
Crazeee Nigrifagritard
May 19, 2020 at 11:10 am
@Leanne Jacobson Hiya
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May 18, 2020 at 10:27 pm
In addition to the beneficial side-effect that Lara mentioned, there’s two other salient points on why a bad gene might not be eliminated through evolution:
(1) – There is nothing natural about humans anymore; medical science kicks natural-selection in the crotch and lets people with horrible conditions survive, which isn’t bad, but it also lets them have biological children which _is_ bad because humans are selfish idiots who don’t think of the right thing and do what they want (like having a biological child knowing full well they have bad genes that can put a horrible burden on their children. So complaining about natural-selection is specious. (No, medicine isn’t new, humans have been using it to keep people alive for thousands of years, so you can’t argue that it couldn’t have had an effect on evolution.)
(2) – As she touched on at the end, Jews are (in)famous for preferring to “keep it in the tribe” as they say and procreate with other Jews as much as possible, hence the gene pool is shallower than the general population which exacerbates and proliferates genetic conditions.
Imran Saifi
May 18, 2020 at 10:31 pm
The Internaut
May 18, 2020 at 10:44 pm
Interesting content but the sound quality is so poor it’s nearly unwatchable
NewDrew2
May 18, 2020 at 10:53 pm
So the key to the survival of the human race is to date out your race. 😉
Bombochka
May 18, 2020 at 11:01 pm
Also white people will extinct as we have weaker color genes. We should not force or brainwash anyone to do anything relating to making a family. It is about what they want, prefer or feel.
goawaygoogle
May 19, 2020 at 2:48 am
fancy that inbreeding isn’t good.
HIGHIQ dotCOM
May 19, 2020 at 4:58 am
No
Leon Cooper
May 18, 2020 at 11:14 pm
I’m not sexist but she’s ugly, boring and a woman
Leon Cooper
May 18, 2020 at 11:14 pm
Makes me turn off
Rick Stinghel
May 19, 2020 at 12:28 am
I have a genetic disease, it causes degeneration in my eyes, in general in my central vision, but don’t is macular degeneration, according with the specialists in my country — Brazil. According with them, is degeneration of cells “cones e bastonetes” — in my language.
PearlyJamx
May 19, 2020 at 2:14 am
This comment section is a disaster.
SuperAtheist
May 19, 2020 at 2:53 am
inbreeding?
Jakub Urban
May 19, 2020 at 11:01 am
Could be a factor
Brendan Morin
May 19, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Inbreeding is huge part of human history, from all areas of the world xD how else do you think our population has grown from only around million in parts of the ice age, to almost 8 billion today haha
BuckySwang
May 19, 2020 at 3:37 am
name dropping harvard lol
Brendan Morin
May 19, 2020 at 4:50 pm
And?
Sid Michael Fajardo
May 19, 2020 at 4:21 am
Is she still pregnant?
Alpha Romeo
May 19, 2020 at 4:21 am
Health
Tells an overweight lady.
Aaron Rosenberg
May 19, 2020 at 3:27 pm
So because of her size, you discredit the content of her talk? Please, refute her talk about “health” point by point.
FractalPrism
May 20, 2020 at 12:33 am
@Aaron Rosenberg “im broke af, but you should listen to me for financial advice”
“i dont take care of my health enough to not be fat, listen to me for health advice”
“im not a model, listen to me for modeling career advice”
“im not a scientist, but listen to me yap about how the universe was ‘created’.”
Erfina Nandiati
May 20, 2020 at 7:09 pm
U wanna say that Stephen Hawking stupid on sport science?
Bart Schaap
May 20, 2020 at 8:37 pm
@FractalPrism i have a hard time to control my eating habits, so I can’t know anything about evolution
Aaron Rosenberg
May 21, 2020 at 4:18 pm
@FractalPrism
Her PhD is in biological anthropology.
She teaches university courses on evolutionary medicine, primate evolution and behavior, human biological variation and female reproductive physiology.
She’s lectured undergrad and grad students at Harvard, Boston University and Tufts University, and has earned multiple awards for teaching excellence.
You can find all this out on your own. But you pretend that she’s giving a talk on how to lose weight so you can feel good about discrediting her.
Something is very wrong with you. But that’s your personal burden to bear.
Freaky
May 19, 2020 at 5:08 am
She is so beautiful !
Florian Berthold
May 19, 2020 at 6:02 am
👍🤗☯️
Riccardo Shove
May 19, 2020 at 10:31 am
youtube has a funny sense of humor in this time
Big Smoke
May 19, 2020 at 10:31 am
youtube has a funny sense of humor in this time
K Seay
May 19, 2020 at 1:54 pm
What could be the ultimate prospective of having autoimmune disorder like lupus??
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
May 19, 2020 at 5:25 pm
Thank you so much for talking and sharing your personal story. Lovely watching and listening to you here on the top of the Italian mountain.
digiryde
May 19, 2020 at 6:21 pm
I remember reading a long time ago that the best way to extend the length of the human lifespan was to delay reproduction until in your 40s. Yes, there would be more problems for a while, but over time genetics and evolution would weed out the weaknesses and select for the strengths if we let it happen. The problem is the morality of letting it happen.
mahmoud mohamed
May 19, 2020 at 9:01 pm
شكرا لك
Online Education Nepal
May 20, 2020 at 7:33 am
Many community should learn from this and stop marrying their cousins
Betty Boop
May 20, 2020 at 2:19 pm
Honestly it’s sad how this comment section is such a mess. She’s got a point but yall just want to comment on her appearance.
Erfina Nandiati
May 20, 2020 at 7:10 pm
You all who comment about her weight, do you all wanna say that Stephen Hawking stupid on sport science?
Ivan Melev
May 20, 2020 at 7:16 pm
Gotta love those ad hoc explanations.
ladi jada
May 21, 2020 at 10:46 am
So squalid inbreeding causes Tay-Sachs disease, but increases IQ and protects from TB.
Icecreamtruck Og
May 25, 2020 at 5:46 pm
This is just part of evolution and you, the ten generations before you and the ten generations after you are just a insignificant blimp on the evolutionary path of the human race.