Frenchfolk losing interest in life

Great linky. Gotta spend your research dollars on the most critical and pressing of topics to society. The 14 year old in me loved it.
 
OK, so it's about breasts, but really, it's a perfectly valid topic. If the issue were lower back pain and how to prevent it, no one would blink (evolution really fucked us up by having us walk upright). I fail to see how, as a health matter, there is anything to blink about about this.

Now as a guy...
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
[...] (evolution really fucked us up by having us walk upright) [...]
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A bit glass-half-empty: there are compensating advantages.
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Obviously, if there weren't reproductive advantages that outweighed the drawbacks, it wouldn't have happened, natural selection being what it is. One of the arguments against intelligent design, however, is that no designer with any intelligence would have managed our uprightness in the way it has befallen us. Even a few minor tweaks would have alleviated a boatload of back problems.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
[...] (evolution really fucked us up by having us walk upright) [...]
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A bit glass-half-empty: there are compensating advantages.
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Obviously, if there weren't reproductive advantages that outweighed the drawbacks, it wouldn't have happened, natural selection being what it is. One of the arguments against intelligent design, however, is that no designer with any intelligence would have managed our uprightness in the way it has befallen us. Even a few minor tweaks would have alleviated a boatload of back problems.
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evolution dictates that we'll always be a work in progress--how long before back pain becomes a selecting criteria is the question.
 
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
[...] (evolution really fucked us up by having us walk upright) [...]
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A bit glass-half-empty: there are compensating advantages.
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Obviously, if there weren't reproductive advantages that outweighed the drawbacks, it wouldn't have happened, natural selection being what it is. One of the arguments against intelligent design, however, is that no designer with any intelligence would have managed our uprightness in the way it has befallen us. Even a few minor tweaks would have alleviated a boatload of back problems.
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evolution dictates that we'll always be a work in progress--how long before back pain becomes a selecting criteria is the question.
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Since a)back pain doesn't kick in until middle age usually and thus too late to have much effect on reproductive competition and b) even if it could have an effect, medicine is likely to reduce that effect (in other words, the environment in which we compete has changed), it seems highly unlikely that this will be a target for selective competition. Evolution is a work in progress but it really doesn't make thinks better and better every day and in every way. For selective purposes, our backs do just fine. It's just that our purposes are frequently different from selective purposes.
 
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