Are Humans Still Evolving? Absolutely, Says A New Analysis Of A Long-Term Survey Of Human Health

-The idea that because medicine has been so good at reducing mortality rates, that means that natural selection is no longer operating in humans
- Humans are not exempt from natural selection. Humans are actually likely to evolve at roughly the same rates as other living things
-The changes may be slow and gradual, but the predicted rates of change are no different from those observed elsewhere in nature
- The results place humans in the medium-to-slow end of the range compared to the rates of other living things


Reflection: I think in one of my other articles I mentioned humans slowly overcoming natural selection. I guess I was wrong, nothing can beat natural selection. There will always be something in nature to put you in you're place, or make you the way you are. I don't know what the reason for this is but who does? Nature is an extremely mysterious thing, and there will always be unanswered question about the mystery of nature.

Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091019162933.htm

Picture: http://whosoeverdesires.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/human-evolution5.jpg

Citation: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). "Are Humans Still Evolving? Absolutely, Says A New Analysis Of A Long-Term Survey Of Human Health." ScienceDaily 20 October 2009. 17 May 2010