• Dogyote@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    Evolution and natural selection never stops, we’ve only changed what the selective pressures are.

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      7 months ago

      True. I was thinking of the selective pressures of nature, but there are absolutely still self imposed selective forces acting on our species.

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        7 months ago

        And even those self-imposed selective forces are ever-changing and vary quite wildly from context to context across the globe and across the socioeconomic spectrum. Modern human evolution is really fascinating.

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          Fascinating but terrifying to think that natural selection is probably now pushing humans to be good little office drones rather than survivors

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        7 months ago

        I know how you mean it, but I would still consider civilisation part of nature. Like an anthill is part of nature even if it was “invented” by ants, etc