TJ, human history is a billion years long with many DNA-cultural adaptations and strategies to a vast variety of circumstance, all of it directed to testing survival of the descendants.
There are tall people and there are short people, and all variations between from corpuscle design and calcium processing to neuron receptor functionality.
All are tossed into the maelstrom with winnowing processes, cruel, relentless, merciless, selecting out 99.999999999999% of what was tried previously.
It is an absurdly complex quantum computing multivariate parallel processing filtration process, fractalized up and fractalized down, with all combinations tested and found wanting or not. There are always more combinations to try in the next generation and the process continues apace.
The tests are not just microsecond, millisecond, second, minute, hourly, daily, monthly, annual cycles but can include very long cycles which reach their critical mass chain reaction to final solution test process only once every 100 years or maybe 500 years as whole cultures expand and contract.
I was going to rant further but I think I'll go and have a nice cup of tea instead as it was going to get too complex.
Suffice to say that the cycles leading to such genocide or at least chimpoid war are long these days as breeding processes, technological and other developments have cut the Malthusian pressure of 10 children per female.
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