Will humans ever evolve a fat cap?

[Mr. Bung]

Physiologically our bodies are still built for stone age hunter gatherer life, which is why we have deathfats in modern society. There is no limit on how much weight the body will take on, so some people end up as huge blobs which as we know can barely move, become diseased, and die.

If access to abundant, cheap, fatty food was something that would continue to be available for a couple million years, would the human body eventually adapt to this by only saving a portion of unused calories while passing the rest as waste?

 

[Joe Swanson]

I suppose it's possible, but unlikely such a mutation would arise

 

[King Fructose]

Fat people.

 

[Shig O'nella]

No.

Once we as a species got to a level where we were significantly altering the environment to suit us rather than the other way around, a lot of selection pressure simply disappeared. Not to say a mutation for a fat cap can't arise, but there'd be no particular reason for it to be conserved.

 

[David Brown]

Physiologically our bodies are still built for stone age hunter gatherer life,

If you believe that. Bit of a just-so story there.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Yes and no.

Considering many obese women physically cannot reproduce (both because of body fat itself and big changes in terms of hormones) we might see this happen eventually, but I wouldn't hold my breath for this to happen within the millennia. It would still require for the right mutation to pop up and to actually spread. So, I guess 2D anime waifus it is for the time being.

 

[knobslobbin]

We already have, it's called communism.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Humans already have a fat cap, but it usually gets trimmed off.