• SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world
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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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        7 months ago

        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