(Looks in mirror)
Yes, yes I am.
Yes, yes I am.
But does that mean that we stop evolving biologically? How does human biology react to our technology? Our cancer rates seem to be related to our industrial mode of production, can a cancer resistant individual immerge from it?
I'll disagree with Morrus slightly. We are still evolving in the way other animals do. The fact that we manipulate our environment doesn't change how we evolve - it merely changes exactly what features are chosen for or against. In some cases, that means we change to take advantage of the technology.
For example, hominids discovered and tamed fire before our species evolved. We have evolved with fire as a base assumption of our existence. The end result is that our digestive tract is no longer suited to deal with an all-raw diet! We have adapted to use fire, our guts are not designed to get more nutrition out of less food by cooking it, to the point where if we don't cook it, we don't have the machinery to get nearly as much nutrition out of it as do creatures who don't use fire.
I think there's a perspective from which you could say that, but I think it's truer that those are environmental results, not evolutionary/genetic. They are the result of increased nutrition for children, and better medical care throughout life.I mean, we're getting taller and our lifespans are increasing. That's evolution.
goldomark said:Our cancer rates seem to be related to our industrial mode of production, can a cancer resistant individual immerge from it?