Monday, February 25, 2008
Are our genes still being shaped by natural selection.?
Are genes are absolutely being shaped by natural selection. As people become more reliant on drugs and technology to fix them, we lose our skills to adapt to the environment, and eventually the traits that enable these skills become lost or diluted. There are also super-bugs developing because of our over-population and reliance on antibiotics. The changes of natural selection happen to gradually for us to see immediate results, but it's safe to assume that modern technology has not saved us from natural selection...it's just procrastinating the inevitable.
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