This severely lowers the probability that the human genome will evolve with any species-wide consequences. Whether it is a good or a bad thing is open to interpretation. It is certainly good for those like myself who need glasses for any hope of seeing and asthma which probably would have killed me off in childhood if not for modern medicine. But it also closes off the possibility of further refining or improving human traits.
If humans no longer evolve, is the model of human today what will remain in the far future? Or is there now a possibility of devolution? Only time (billions and billions of years) will tell.
That is a very interesting point to be brought up! No doubt the advances we have made today are exceptional and completely useful, but it also means other things will not be able to progress. Things such as birth control will stop reproduction of the younger age, which will lower the population Therefore, I completely agree, only time will tell what comes from the advances we have made and the damage, or the benefits it will make on the society.
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