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by Ancalagon 1003 days ago
Natural selection sure, artificial though, definitely.

Women (on average) have preferences for taller guys (on average), where do you think the average height of people are headed? Artificial selection.

Most reproduction is monogamous in modern society. Artificial selection.

I don't mean to offend anyone with those examples by the way, apologies if I did. I also realize the irony that those examples might be opposing forces for the same phenotype I'm referencing.

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Artificial selection refers to our selective breeding of non-humans. The examples you mentioned are natural selection.
People have a hard time understanding that humans are just animals and also part of nature.
Exactly. By the way, there's a name for human artificial selection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics