Hell no

The BBC asks: Are humans still evolving?, arguing that the fact that we’ve decimated infant mortality in the western world and therefore have removed the prime mover of natural selection.

That’s a maybe, of course. But evolution is still going on. Granted, the upshot of evolution these days might be that we all end up being fat, pale and with massive thumbs, but it’s evolution all the same.

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