Eyesight will get worse over time now, but people can see better than ever… it’s a bizarre contradiction.
Until you consider medicine and technology to be part of the aggregate evolutionary progress. In which case, we’re racing ahead!
I don’t think we see a return to traditional evolutionary pressure unless we get truly isolated populations again, coupled with a major global disaster. That, or people living in space.
Until you consider medicine and technology to be part of the aggregate evolutionary progress
No, that stuff is memetic instead of genetic.
You can say it’s human society evolving, but it’s not humans evolving.
I think there is a strong argument that we have been post human since we developed writing and that a ‘person’ encompasses more than just their meat sack. I was first introduced to this idea by the book Natural Born Cyborgs. You are taking a narrower view of the word evolution, but I’m not totally sure it’s justified.
