From The Scientist:
If there is one common theme in all this recent selection, it is that much of the human diversity we see around us today arose very recently. More than 90 percent of the heritage of every living human comes from sub-Saharan Africa sometime around 100,000 years ago. Fifteen years ago, many geneticists saw this recent common ancestry as evidence that human evolution had mostly drawn to a close. After diverging from our common chimpanzee and bonobo ancestors some 7 million years ago, hominins underwent massive changes in body size, diet, behavior, and brain size. Huge evolutionary innovations marked the beginning of upright walking, tool use, culture, and language. And those changes all happened before 100,000 years ago. (See “Uniquely Human” here.) More.
This article attempts to make the case that humans are still evolving (probably true).
It cites trivial examples such as lactose tolerance and eye/skin colour. These matters are vastly more important culturally than they are physiologically. No mention of anyone growing antlers, for example.
Evolution dogma is a curious thing. I remember reading, a while back, a Darwin-in-the-schools lobby document on how to hector people who have doubts about Darwinism. One point emphasized was that people who say evolution is always happening should be challenged. They are not really “accepting evolution.”
What the pressure group seemed to really mean is that the people who think evolution is always happening do not really accept Darwinian naturalist atheism, which is commonly packaged as “evolution” for schools. (And is the chief source of controversy.)
Common sense would suggest that:
1. Evolution is always happening. (a logical assumption in a transient world)
2. Or else, it happened but has now stopped. (why?)
3. It never happens. (but this is a transient world, so … ?)
The simplest explanation is that evolution is always happening, back and forth. But some really big events (the human mind, for example) defy current explanation. The only reason that the subject of ongoing evolution is a source of contention is the need to cram the facts into a Darwinian narrative.
See also: Why human evolution happened only once: the question no one has to answer
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