Are human beings still evolving?

Gresham College Lectures

Gresham College Lectures
Are human beings still evolving?
Mar 26, 2009
Gresham College
Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely long enough to have become fully evolved?
It was thought that the dramatic extension of life spans during the 20th century eliminated natural selection, but new evidence shows that to be false.
Will selection always be natural, or could postmodern also mean posthuman?

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