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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by elliotec on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:23PM (#22548672)
First of all "there is still natural selection" in literally all life, so I think you're meaning something else. But to what your point actually is, do you have any source on that?
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by bosswipe on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:50PM (#22548995)
I know several people that would have not been able to reach adulthood 100 years ago but have now reproduced and have passed on their diseases to their offspring. There is no doubt that natural selection in humans is much weaker now then in the past.
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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by elliotec on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:16PM (#22549356)
That's not what natural selection means... medical innovations are still natural selection factors. It doesn't stop, we just naturally figure out how to get better at it.
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