Genetic modification will probably render evolution in the traditional biological sense moot, however:
We are, barring technological intervention, heading very slowly in the direction of continental speciation. Genetic drift in the interior of the inhabited continents is happening faster than gene-mixing 'along the edges'. Intuitively it 'feels' like with all of our travel and immigration, the human race is mixing more than ever...and it is, but not enough to counteract the gradual differentiation of continental populations. The rate of mixing just slows it down but generally speaking, Africans, Asians, Europeans, and so forth are becoming more different, genetically. Even the North and Sout American gene pools are going their own way.
Of course, the continents may drift back together before their human populations have drifted apart so far that they can no longer interbreed.
We are, barring technological intervention, heading very slowly in the direction of continental speciation. Genetic drift in the interior of the inhabited continents is happening faster than gene-mixing 'along the edges'. Intuitively it 'feels' like with all of our travel and immigration, the human race is mixing more than ever...and it is, but not enough to counteract the gradual differentiation of continental populations. The rate of mixing just slows it down but generally speaking, Africans, Asians, Europeans, and so forth are becoming more different, genetically. Even the North and Sout American gene pools are going their own way.
Of course, the continents may drift back together before their human populations have drifted apart so far that they can no longer interbreed.
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