We're Evolving Too Slowly for the World We've Built, According to Science
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I don't know if human evolution is really slowing but I think that modern medicine and healthcare does reduce evolutionary pressure by reducing "natural selection".
I suspect that culling the slowest 10% in a texting competition at the end of high school, before people usually reproduce, would be frowned upon.