Re: Are We Still Evolving?

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banerkx@news.infi.net (Kaushik Banerjee) wrote:
>Are we still evolving? Since we put stress on our
>environment, rather than vice versa, are we still evolving?
>
Because of genetic phenomena such as genetic drift, recombination and
mutation, evolution is not a process which could ever actually stop. And
of course breeding selection hasn't stopped either, even if it's no
longer so much due to 'natural' pressures.

Julian Treadwell

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