This article doesn’t address the point that modern society enables most individuals to live long enough to have children regardless of their genetic advantages or disadvantages. Sure people with light skin are not well suited to living in very hot climates, but in the modern world that isn’t going to make them less likely to procreate than people with dark skin in that environment.
We’re always evolving. We are at this very moment evolving to adapt to an environment full of microplastics, to eating ultraprocessed foods, to look at screens for most of the day, etc.
It’s too bad that evolution has some sort of time delay and only makes the next generations more adapted to the current environment, instead of the future environment, so people won’t be adapted to a hotter climate, more intense climatic events, to deal with food and scarcity, more uv intensity, more conflicts, and so many other things until it’s too late.
Just informing that this post contains irony and is mostly a joke
Not only the next generation. There are many genes that activate or deactivate based on environmental factors.
There’s even a term for such genes… A term I forget, but it exists and experts are very aware. Of course they aren’t going to have as massive as an effect as generational drift, but they can still have significant impact.
Doubt any type of effect can keep up with humans trashing the planet for profit, but… …
If we make it a few thousand years I’m sure our bodies are trying to evolve against plastics and cancer.
In s thousand years we will be perfectly evolved to consume nothing but raw unfiltered high fructose corn syrup.
A very insightful article.
We’re doin’ the genetic drift! Cha cha cha
