I understand the concept of Natural Selection as such: There are two animals of the same species, slightly different - one whose "slight difference" is more helpful to its existence in current conditions survives, the other dies and never produces offspring. Therefore, most of the next generation of the species are more like the surviving animal.
If there're a bunch of monkeys, and a bunch of them no longer has a tail, perhaps a predator doesn't have a tail to grab on to when they catch them or something so they can avoid the predator better or something. The other monkeys get eaten, humanlike ones don't and can keep reproducing on ground, whereas the offspring of the other ones are forced to sit high on trees. Right?
So here's my question: how do you apply this to modern humans? Our survival and offspring rate no longer depends on these little things since our technology allows us to not need any more biological advantage to safely live and have sex. In fact, any deviation is likely to be taken as an abnormality and unattractive to the members of the opposite sex.
Does that mean we're done evolving as a species? Or how do we justify further evolution given the natural selection.
Sorry for the long post.
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its because we've gained control over our environment, including predators but i don't think we have stopped evolving due to natural selection. natural selection will just play an extremely small role for now and will take longer than ever.
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yeah by the looks of things we as Humans we will all be black within a few hundred years.
whilst most first world countries are having a decline in population, Africas population is exploding.
And 90% of them are starving. That kind of population growth cannot be sustained; the same thing happens in areas where animal populations explode--there isn't enough food for all of them.
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Honestly they're only starving because of the corrupt governments and genocides that go on there.
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Also where did you get 90% of the people are starving? That isn't true at all. There are some really nice parts of Africa and some really fucked up parts just like in every continent.
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were all still evolving, it never stops. Evolution SLOWS DOWN from time to time if there is no point in evolving but yeah it'll never end.
some examples of evolution in humans. Just 1000 years ago, we would execute anyone we didn't like and brutally murder anyone who didn't have the same beliefs.
NOW there's a waiting list (in the US) to be executed and we do it in such a fashion that the executed have a painless deaths.
we've become more "civilized" as a species I guess.
in a few 1000 years, we'll all probably have tanish skin due to the growth of interracial couples
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Change in culture is not evolution of species. Evolution is physical. Or mental, of course, but physical in the brain. Change in traditions of the species is not evolution.
A lot of you have said that humans will continue evolving slower. Can you explain actually how or why? HOW does natural selection work still?
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yeah by the looks of things we as Humans we will all be black within a few hundred years. 
