(December 7, 2013 at 5:45 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: The rules of natural selection, no longer apply to us.
This is an incorrect statement I believe.
Evolutionary scientists used to suspect this may be true but it turns out that natural selection very much still applies to humanity.
Quote:"First of all, humans haven't really changed the rules of natural selection. We might think that because we have culture--and with it all kinds of medical interventions and technologies--that we are immune from natural selection, but nature proceeds as usual. Evolution is defined as a change in gene frequencies over time, which means that over generations, there will be changes in the gene pool, and humans experience those changes as much as any other organism. Some people live and some people die, and some people pass on more genes than others. Therefore, there is a change in the human gene pool over time. "
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...s-still-ev
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