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
  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    Manual/deliberate sperm/egg production.

    Manual/deliberate control over fat creation and storage.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
      41·
      1 year ago

      Manual/deliberate control over fat creation and storage.

      Monkey’s paw on this one is that you’d end up having some pretty fantastic explosive diarrhea as the bacteria chow down on your energy loaded waste.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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).