Comment I think the more important statement was: (Score 1) 857
"Another factor is the weakening of natural selection. "In ancient times half our children would have died by the age of 20. Now, in the Western world, 98 per cent of them are surviving to 21."
I think that we, as modern humans, have 'almost' completely (but justly) done away with Darwinian natural selection.
I don't think human evolution is done though. I think we are just stagnant right now. Perhaps the next phase will be, for the first time in all history, [we] the organism, will purposefully, consciously, dictate our own evolutionary future. Perhaps we are on the verge of the beginning of 'un-natural' selection.
I think that we, as modern humans, have 'almost' completely (but justly) done away with Darwinian natural selection.
I don't think human evolution is done though. I think we are just stagnant right now. Perhaps the next phase will be, for the first time in all history, [we] the organism, will purposefully, consciously, dictate our own evolutionary future. Perhaps we are on the verge of the beginning of 'un-natural' selection.