Do you think that evolution for humans has stopped because life is so easy for e

Question: Do you think that evolution for humans has stopped because life is so easy for everyone, getting rid of!?

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I don't think evolution can stop!.!.!.ever!. Some times it's really slow (or more correctly, unchanging)!.!.!.some times it takes huge jumps (physical change is present)!. It all depends on mutation and it's success (or failure), and any natural selection (i!.e!. something that can selectively eliminate a specific section of a population)!.

For example, humans get taller every year, very rapidly (have you ever seen beds in the 1600s - they are tiny)!. If caused through genetics, as opposed to nutrition, then this is evolutionary!. Many scientists link this to the growing use of C-sections!. Most people think of evolution as creating a selection, but in this case it's removing one!. By eliminating the natural size restraint produced by the female reproductive organ, bigger babies (and their surviving mothers) are no longer killed, and thus still contribute to the active gene pool, thus changing the population!.

However, human evolution is not taking the same path as it used to!. Humans can now buy whatever they lack genetically!. If you have bad vision, you can literally buy a pair of eyes (glasses or contacts), or bad hearing or so on!. So if anything, we are diluting our strong gene pool with genes of people who should have been wiped out, which is still evolution (but not in a positive way)!.

I recommend reading some essays from the late Stephen J!. Gould!. He wrote a lot about these things, and writes it through pop culture comparisons!. His famous theory is the theory of punctuated equilibrium and details how evolution is often stagnant at times, and explodes during others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com