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by mattigames 502 days ago
People is taking the parent comment literally but that was very clearly not the intent, obviously human evolution in the stricly technical biological sense its still happening (e.g. genetic diversity) but is by far currently molded by changes done by humanity itself (e.g. industralization, tech) not by factors outside their control as it happens with every other animal on earth, and as it adapts to the environment of its own creation it also loses the traits that favor surviving outside of such an environemnt (e.g. in case of disaster and we lose some of that environment, like a nuclear holocaust)

There are ways we could avoid losing most of that survivability but of course they are wildly unpopular such as actively discourage people with terrible inheritable diseases to procreate (e.g. ALS, Lupus), favor reproduction of people with both higher intelligence and physical skills (e.g. goverment subsidies for their parents, tied to their children grades and general well being)