It may be safe from an individual perspective, but if you always pick the more common allele, you are converging towards the modal genome, which would be a world where everyone is a clone of everyone else.
Genetic diversity is valuable both as a hedge against disease and because it lends itself to specialization, which is an important part of the modern economy.
It may be safe from an individual perspective, but if you always pick the more common allele, you are converging towards the modal genome, which would be a world where everyone is a clone of everyone else.
Genetic diversity is valuable both as a hedge against disease and because it lends itself to specialization, which is an important part of the modern economy.