Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

  • No periods
  • No balding
  • No nausea
  • No body odor
  • Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
  • fossphiEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Manual/deliberate sperm/egg production.

    I’m not an evolutionary biology expert, but my armchair thought process says that this trait might not survive the evolutionary pressure. The burden of child rearing is quite high (specially these days).

    • gibmiser@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      Oh totally. Absolutely would decimate the human population on earth. And that wouldn’t be a bad thing if it meant people only had kids they could actually take care of.