Humans: Are We Still Evolving?

Perhaps, depends on how you look at it

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Well, it depends how you look at it and which theory of evolution you subscribe to, if you subscribe to one at all.

If you’re a creationist then no, we’re not evolving because we never evolved in the first place, we just appeared in the Garden of Eden and all humans come from those first two (minus the snake).

If you’re a Lamarckist then yes, perhaps we’re evolving but we’re evolving in individual ways — through characteristics each of us pick up during our lifetimes and pass down to the next generation. Maybe like craned-forward necks and shorter attention spans from looking at our phones too much.

If you’re a Darwinist then it’s a big ‘maybe we’re evolving, but probably not’.

Darwin’s theory of natural selection is the most widespread and accepted of all evolutionary theory, the old ‘survival of the fittest’.

In his theory, which I must admit I do like, species evolve through random genetic mutations which make them…