If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving (theconversation.com)

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[-] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not saying that genetic changes aren't happening at all, just that the article doesn't address that modern society creates a very different environment for natural selection, compared to humans in subsistence level environments in the wild.

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