If anything we’re anti-evolving.
Similar to jekkyl’s augmented evolution, we also enable traits to develop and continue that without modern technology/medicine to mitigate their impact on our ability to reproduce successfully would have meant that some of our number would have been running at the back of the pack when the wolves came, if they had survived that long. I wonder just to what extent diseases like diabetes or asthma have increased not just because of environmental/lifestyle influence but also because the relevant genes are being successfully reproduced.
“Fewer women with narrow pelvises together their unborn female children now die during childbirth”*
There is the start of research finding evolutionary impacts on obstetrics where there is potential evidence for the hypothesis that prevalence of C-section is increasing the incidence of narrow pelvic canals which…leads to more C-sections. But it might not be wholly conclusive yet.
Thanks weekendworrier – I dont half mangle language some mornings. More coffee needed 🙂
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/51/14680.full