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Originally Posted by geonuc
I think it's been touched on upthread, but the biggest effect I see is medical - not just medical technology but the increased availability of life-saving procedures and medications. Those that natural selection might have deemed unworthy of reproducing may live to do so now, thus keeping more undesireable traits in the gene pool.
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Since humans invented medical technology, and human inventiveness is a product of natural selection, then keeping those people alive is also a product of natural selection. If they can survive, then their traits are not "undesireable". They're just adapted to an environment that has modern medicine.
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