Human Evolutionary Adaptation
Discussions center on whether humans can biologically or culturally adapt to modern environments and technology, given that evolution occurs slowly over millennia while societal changes happen rapidly.
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"shouldn't on the contrary human evolution been speeded up"Why? We're well adapted to our "niche". There is not much different for us to adapt to.
Why don't you think humans will adapt as well?
Because we're no longer living in the type of environment for which we evolved.
Evolution adapts to present conditions, not future conditions, and on a time scale of millenias. It chanced into a feature set that let us change our environment much faster than that. We're still adapted to the lifestyle we had many thousands of years ago.
Humans evolved to be highly adaptable.
You're not accounting for adaptation, which nature is very good at.
Modern society isn't what humans evolved to thrive in
I think what they are suggesting is that humans will adapt to the changing environment as we have done over tens of thousands of years of evolution.
Adapting effectively and quickly is kind of our thing, also backed by millions of years of evolution.
Guess what, human as like any other organism can adapt to their changing environment. Basic evolution biology.