“While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is the possibility of a monumental genetic hangover over the subsequent millennia due to an over-reliance on technology reducing our natural capacity to resist disease, or our evolved ability to get along with each other.

Link (via BoingBoing)

The above statements come from a “report commissioned for men’s satellite TV channel Bravo” which isn’t exactly Nature or Science, and you can feel sensationalism all over the article. But what happens in our economy (a growing rich-poor divide) could definitely happen in our genes.

Update: evolution is actually stuck! No need to worry! “For any evolutionary change to take place, the environment has to remain more or less constant for many generations, so that evolution can select the traits that are adaptive and eliminate those that are not. When the environment undergoes rapid change within the space of a generation or two […] then evolution can’t happen because nature can’t determine which traits to select and which to eliminate.” Link

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