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Humans are not evolving (in the Darwinian sense). The closest thing is selection based on which parts of the population have the most children.

We are devolving in many ways: diseases that kill us or make us infertile are being treated so as to not kill us and make us infertile. With time, we might devolve to the point where we completely depend on modern medicine to survive and reproduce.




I was thinking more along these lines: http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/evolutionary-adapta... . And that is just about the last ~10,000 years (give or take a few thousands).

> With time, we might devolve to the point where we completely depend on modern medicine to survive and reproduce.

That's a possibility, of course. Then you have to wonder what happens if the social structures crumble or change dramatically and you do not have access to modern medicine anymore?




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