Sir David Attenborough is wrong – humans are still evolving

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Image via the Guardian. Credit: Sarah Lee

Like Prof Steve Jones before him, Sir David Attenborough has argued that humanity has now escaped nature’s clutches, and we have now stopped evolving. Masters of our own destiny, as a species we have confronted the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and emerged victorious.

So have we, in Attenborough’s words “put a halt to natural selection”, the major force of evolution, which drives adaptation, creating and destroying exquisitely variable species at its whim? The short answer is “no”. In fact, there is not a population on the planet that is free from the forces of nature in this way, and in fact it is hard to imagine how there ever could be.

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