Do you think evolution has nearly peaked?

If you think that, then you have no idea what Natural Selection actually entails.

That's a great argument against Social Darwinism, and I'd be all for that abhorrent idea dying out.

Natural Selection doesn't care about the political conditions one lives under, those are by definition artificial constraints.

Evolution will never peak. Genetic change over time through heredity will continue.

Oh no- I think we are on the edge of a major evolutionary leap, what with all the Indigo children.

I'm just wondering if the next step is going to be polydactyly on the hands for really rad guitar solos and mayb e no more pinky toes, so ladies can wear skinnier pointier shoes to go with their witchy outfits.

Also, if somehow we cold get two navels for more belly rings, that would be cool too. And if men started lactating so women wouldn't have to lose our shape breastfeeding.

What would it take for that?

Oh- the weak slow and stupid opnly breed with each other- so they'll diverge into a slavish worker class- kind of like the epsilons in Brave New World. As soon as the Indigos figure out how to give them different vaccinations so they quit growing so darn big...

Seriously.

Really.

I mean this.

NOT.

Bless up.

You haven't a clue about the nature of evolution. It has no goal, no end. And it is not automatic. All life forms show genetic variation in each generation. Variations that are not compatible with the environment are self extinguishing, Those that are tend to endure. If the environment changes significantly, so do the odds for each variation. Humans have developed some limited control of their environment, but not complete control, so evolution is still potentially in play, But it is strictly a matter of change that successfully copes with change, not some fantasy "ideal".

You'll likely feel differently if you are alive when the inevitable pandemic sweeps across the globe.

More importantly, evolution is not goal driven; therefore, there is no such thing as a "peak".

The major hinderance to evolution currently is the lack of isolated human breeding populations - but, again, a pandemic or other globally catostrophic event may change that.

Evolution cannot peak because evolution is a process rather than "progress." For as long as we live and reproduce we will evolve. It is simply a matter of adapting to our surroundings.

Natural selection is, unlike evolution, a theory, not a fact. One of many theories of evolution. But to answer your question, natural selection, if a fact, must apply to humans because humans ARE animals.

You never stop evolving.

Evolution is a series of never-ending adaptions to environments.

We don't all have equal rights. Gay people can't even marry in certain states.

There is no peak to evolution. There are still plenty of unknown worlds that haven't been to so we couldn't possibly be adapted to all the unknown environments.

Evolution has no peak, it is like a meandering stream.

I bet there are a lot of starving people in third world countries who would disagree with your idea that all the weak people are protected and surviving well.

Of course humans are not subject to natural selection to the extent other species are, because we can avoid many of the natural effects of natural selection by medical means. Which is why many diseases (like diabetes) are common that would be rare if natural selection were permitted to take its course.

Yeah, we are protecting ourselves from natural selection. People don't get eaten by bears or fall off cliffs as much anymore. Now they die from car wrecks and coronay disease. We are a social animal, we probably protected retards back in the stone age too.

Evolution will never have a peak, it will just continue until the end of the earth.