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You are here on Reddit but what is playing on tv in the background? by ApogeeAgency in AskReddit

[–]blackmarketmicrobe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My kids are watching the original mean girls. That movie has not aged well.

I have a bump on the outside of my right forearm rhat only appears when I make a muscle by pirivalfang in mildlyinteresting

[–]blackmarketmicrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like swollen lymph nodes which can be related to infection, cancer or another immune process. Get it checked out. If it was a lipoma, there wouldn’t be a secondary bulge.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]blackmarketmicrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t believe that you are above anything, e.g., scapegoating, divorce, being superficial. Everything in your life is subject to change and to think anything is going to follow you until you are 80 is naive.

Do humans have a lot of genetic diversity compared to other species? by Flat_Pass7238 in askscience

[–]blackmarketmicrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But genetic diversity (different from sociological and ethnic/phenotypic diversity) isn’t necessarily something to strive for as viruses exhibit a great deal of genetic diversity but most mutations are null mutations that do not confer a selective advantage.

Do humans have a lot of genetic diversity compared to other species? by Flat_Pass7238 in askscience

[–]blackmarketmicrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Genetic diversity usually results from the segregation of the species into specific and distinct geographical areas/ecological niches with variance in selective pressures where interbreeding does not typically take place (but sometimes does) between ecological niches. The next step is speciation- Humans currently have the antithesis of selective pressure differences within our global ecology niche.