September 9, 2013

THE END OF BELIEF:

Sir David Attenborough says humans have stopped evolving (James Meikle, 9/09/13, The Guardian)

"We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were," he tells this week's Radio Times.

"Stopping natural selection is not as important, or depressing, as it might sound - because our evolution is now cultural ... We can inherit a knowledge of computers or television, electronics, aeroplanes and so on."

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