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Comment by PeterisP

Well, a plausible answer is that if we (or random mutations) re-enable those genes then the end result is simply a lot of cancer.

A reasonable default assumption is that each switch in our "genetic configuration" is set to a quite good value.

The only exception is if we see a feature that is beneficial at a high calorie cost - those features have been (reasonably) optimized away during our evolution, but would be useful in modern circumstances where food is not scarce anymore; this is a tradeoff where it would make sense to just turn the dial way to the right from where it had been throughout the last million years.

parent PeterisP 10 years ago

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