On 05/08/06 09:21 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 08:19 AM 8/5/2006 ] > > >> Humans are evolving. > > > >Where are the selection pressures? > > Exactly. Counter to Devdas' thesis, I would imagine that evolution in > humans has been kept at bay by medical science (which is a sidetrack > from the original article, but still)
Humans still have evolutionary pressures caused by drugs, war and ecological changes. Pollution is one of those pressures, medicines are another (thalidomide resulted in an unsuccessful mutation, for example). See changes in average heights, for example. Devdas Bhagat
