[design219]

Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike

"History looks more and more like a science fiction novel in which mutants repeatedly arose and displaced normal humans -- sometimes quietly, by surviving starvation and disease better, sometimes as a conquering horde. And we are those mutants."

This is cool. Some of these scientist think we were a bit different just a thousand years ago. And you northern european cheese eaters are mutants!

I have wondered about technology in the last couple hundred years playing its part in evolution. My wife would have died if not for an emergency c-section that would have failed without the technology available at the hospital. I think my genes should have dead ended.

[- - e r i k - -]

Interesting, last I checked findings indicated that globalisation is actually slowing human evolution.

[Chuckit]

Sounds like nutbaggery to me.

[Uncle Skeleton]

Originally Posted by design219 

I have wondered about technology in the last couple hundred years playing its part in evolution. My wife would have died if not for an emergency c-section that would have failed without the technology available at the hospital. I think my genes should have dead ended.

It is believed that one of the major limiting factors to brain size growth in humans is the birth canal. You can think of technology as allowing us to develop advantageous features that have until-now unacceptable side effects.

[Kevin]

I believe we still have no clue.

[Dakar the Fourth]

How are you doing?

Eh, I'm alright.