The evolutionary biologist Philipp Mitteröcker from the University of Vienna shows in the writing of How human bodies are evolving in mod...
The evolutionary biologist Philipp Mitteröcker from the University of Vienna shows in the writing of How human bodies are evolving in modern societies how medical treatment can end evolutionary equilibrium and thus trigger new changes. However, these evolutionary changes are not limited to thousands or millions of years: they can affect human biology within a few decades.
"Sociocultural transitions and medical advancements can disrupt evolutionary equilibriums underlying modern human anatomy, physiology, and life history. Disentangling such complex biosocial evolutionary dynamics poses serious ethical questions but has strong potential for guiding public health policies." Philipp Mitteroecker
This is not the classical Darwinian evolution where random changes and natural selection made the development. This is an artificially driven evolution, where direct, planned changes create the sometimes unpredicted advancement.
As it was mentioned in the thought of Evolution 2.0: The development of the species can be made much more efficient by realizing a more advanced way of evolution, where instead of only the genes being transferred (Evolution 1.0), the learned knowledge can be inherited and can be transferred to the next generations as well (Evolution 2.0). This option could launch an explosive growth of evolution for the species.
The effects of the socio-cultural transitions and medical advancements to human development are the first steps toward the Evolution 2.0 type evolution. Evolution 2.0 has been started.
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