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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6221291" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Here's my take on it. </p><p></p><p>If you consider tool use as part of our evolution, then I'd have to say yes. The nature of the specifics of the evolution is altering, but it's still evolution. And as our technology becomes more and more integrated with us (right now we carry it in the form of phones and sit in it in the form of vehicles; soon we'll be wearing it), the evolution will become more apparent.</p><p></p><p>Evolution just means change. It doesn't mean "gets stronger, faster, brighter"; it could mean "gets smaller, more short-lived", depending on the needs of the environment. That's why that "medicine stops evolution" argument is flawed; that <em>is </em>the change. Maybe we evolve from a [comparatively] hardy species to a less-hardy, but more more technologically enhanced species as we develop technology to cope with our environment.</p><p></p><p>So no, we haven't stopped evolving. We're just no longer evolving in the same way many animals do.</p><p></p><p>It could be that this is the standard evolution path of all intelligent species. They evolve to develop tools, and they evolve those tools to change themselves and to develop the ability to alter their environment. The path of evolution becomes more controlled, self-determined.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6221291, member: 1"] Here's my take on it. If you consider tool use as part of our evolution, then I'd have to say yes. The nature of the specifics of the evolution is altering, but it's still evolution. And as our technology becomes more and more integrated with us (right now we carry it in the form of phones and sit in it in the form of vehicles; soon we'll be wearing it), the evolution will become more apparent. Evolution just means change. It doesn't mean "gets stronger, faster, brighter"; it could mean "gets smaller, more short-lived", depending on the needs of the environment. That's why that "medicine stops evolution" argument is flawed; that [I]is [/I]the change. Maybe we evolve from a [comparatively] hardy species to a less-hardy, but more more technologically enhanced species as we develop technology to cope with our environment. So no, we haven't stopped evolving. We're just no longer evolving in the same way many animals do. It could be that this is the standard evolution path of all intelligent species. They evolve to develop tools, and they evolve those tools to change themselves and to develop the ability to alter their environment. The path of evolution becomes more controlled, self-determined. [/QUOTE]
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