RE: Technology's effect on evolution
April 18, 2012 at 12:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 12:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We (some of us, specifically) have relatively recent adaptations for dairy and grain. We also have a few statistical outliers in other more pronounced areas. So the consensus seems to be no. We may, however, have had some impact on the sorts of drastic and punctuated changes we see in the "evolutionary past". Only time will tell. Our current survival strategy could fail us at any moment (largely technology, and this is the best reason to avoid becoming complacent about it). We'd go down fighting that tooth and nail though wouldn't we?
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