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deepsuntoday at 4:55 AM1 replyview on HN

As far as I was taught in college, evolution never stops, but we're just too short lived to notice that. We _may_ notice some very tiny blip on timescales of several hundred years, but last really noticeable traits happened many thousands years ago.

However, cultural/society/educational evolution happens much-much faster (but is also much-much weaker, can disappear on just a few weeks).


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Grimblewaldtoday at 7:23 AM

also, technology largly exists to remove the discomfort of evolutionary pressure. This doesnt mean the mutations that give rise to evolutionary changes in the population, but it does mean we've removed or mititaged many of the mechanisms which would select for specific traits.

Again, we would naturally still change, but not in the the way or at the rate otger organisms continue to or at which we would sans technology.

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