The End of Darwinism : How Humans are Overriding Evolution

The Natural Selection theory of Charles Darwin is based upon a few concepts: Species naturallyreproduce in overabundance, with genetic variation and mutations that are generally harmful, butsometimes beneficial. The more adaptable offspring have higher survival rates than the lessadaptable offspring, so that the minority of surviving specie populations genetically evolve to bebetter adapted to their (often changing) environments across generations.Human technology has often overridden these basic premises. Humans themselves today havealmost a 100% survival to reproductive age. Domesticated animals and plants are artificially bred,with targeted survival rates, helped along by agricultural methods that include feeding andprotection of animals, with herbicides and pesticides to protect crops, etc. Wild animal and plantpopulations are encroached by these developments. Since genetic evolution is usually a slowprocess, wild species are unable to adapt to the human caused rapidly changing environment withloss of habitat, global warming, pollution, etc. Thus, the Darwinism process breaks down,especially for domesticated animals and plants, for wild animals, and to some extent for wildplants. Although humans may still naturally reproduce, they too are no longer genetically evolvingto better adapt, but instead are much more quickly adapting through technology and culture, e.g.by dramatically lowering fertility rates to offset surging population