Comment on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)parentComments−badosu2yIt is required some process of natural selection for mutations to be selected against, do we know how this occurs with the modern homo sapiens?−MrVandemar2yWe have plenty of modern day selection pressure. Watch the first 2 minutes of Idiocracy.−pfdietz2yUnless you think our ancestral biology is perfectly adapted to the modern world, evolution will be acting. Indeed, evolution is probably occurring on humanity at a breakneck pace right now, because our environment has changed so radically.
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It is required some process of natural selection for mutations to be selected against, do we know how this occurs with the modern homo sapiens?
We have plenty of modern day selection pressure. Watch the first 2 minutes of Idiocracy.
Unless you think our ancestral biology is perfectly adapted to the modern world, evolution will be acting. Indeed, evolution is probably occurring on humanity at a breakneck pace right now, because our environment has changed so radically.