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		tshaddox on Nov 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase Why would natural selection be dead? I don't see why humans would be any more immune from natural selection than any other species. At the bare minimum, people still choose their mates (and some die without reproducing), so unless these choices are completely unaffected by genes they should be causing a gradual change in heritable traits among the human population.

nooneelse on Nov 29, 2012 [–]

Indeed, and we are probably facing new selection pressures. Such as the propensity toward addictions to substances our ancestors would not have had (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/28/painkiller-add...).

tshaddox on Nov 30, 2012 | [–]

Not to mention the constant arms race with biological pathogens.

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