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FYI Evolutionary pressure is mostly failure to reproduce. There needs to be enough damage or death before reproduction. Women past menopause can only affect evolution by preventing their children from reproducing.

Slightly damaged eyesight would hardly affect evolution.

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Being blind must. It's evolution pressure, not evolutionary dead-end.

We are a very compassionate society. There are dating and matchmaking services for people with virtually every kind of disability, including those who absolutely can not care for themselves, and modern health infrastructure affords the mentally disabled and other selective pressures (narrow birth canal and many other issues) to carry to term.

The same evolutionary pressures don't apply to humans at the moment with regard to sex. Not while civilization is a thing, anyway.

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