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[-] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

True. I was thinking of the selective pressures of nature, but there are absolutely still self imposed selective forces acting on our species.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago

And even those self-imposed selective forces are ever-changing and vary quite wildly from context to context across the globe and across the socioeconomic spectrum. Modern human evolution is really fascinating.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Fascinating but terrifying to think that natural selection is probably now pushing humans to be good little office drones rather than survivors

[-] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That's only true if people that work in offices reproduce at a higher rate than the general population, and I'm not entirely sure that's the case. If anything, societal trends have shown that in more developed countries where office work would be more common people are having fewer kids and populations are starting to decline.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I know how you mean it, but I would still consider civilisation part of nature. Like an anthill is part of nature even if it was "invented" by ants, etc

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