how did something as disadvantageous as myopia survive natural selection?

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Considering how much it would’ve affected hunting and gathering, how are so many people nearsighted?

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Only if that myopia was so severe that it prevented reproduction. Natural selection works on removing traits that prevent the individual to reach reproductive age, otherwise those genes just keep passing on.

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