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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Of course, there are places in the world where natural selection is still a strong force on human development because medical intervention is so rare or ineffectual. Look for the first natural resistance to AIDS to come from sub-Saharan Africa.
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If by natural selection you mean environmental pressures that are not within human control, then yes, to a large extent those of us in developed nations are better able to control our environments and can alter who in the absence of environmental control would survive.
But the increasing ability to control our environment is still a form of survival of the fittest. It may not be natural selection in that your definition of natural means those environmental forces that we cannot control.
