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by cdirkx 1539 days ago
Your body and genetics, it takes a really long time to evolve a different body (thousands of generations), but it takes very little time to update culture (couple of generations).
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There is evidence that single generation evolution can happen with strong enough shocks. Nothing immediately obvious, just detectable DNA changes that lead to changes in risk for certain conditions.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96verkalix_study