If evolution happens to all animals, are humans evolving right now?

>>2448799
yeah no shit animeposter

>>2448799
Yes, we are evolving a predisposition to religion and superstition due to policies which encourage the poor to have as many children as possible.

Yes, one of the biggest changes between us and our cave dwelling ancestors is that our brains have actually gotten smaller since we can rely on society for many of our survival needs.

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Yes. There's a few traits that are being weeded out of the gene pool. For example, most people have a palmaris muscle that no longer serves a purpose. It's completely absent in some people because it's slowly being trimmed out. We don't need it anymore.

There's a lot of other stuff that's vestigial, too. The muscle that lets people curl their tongue. Wisdom teeth. Probably the appendix.

Wisdom teeth are another good example. Our jaws have grown smaller and now we have too many teeth for the small jaws. Wisdom teeth don't have any more space to grow and some people don't have them grow in anymore.

We're also evolving to cope with things like foods and medicine. Our evolution to be able to digest dairy was a very recent one, and it spread very fast.

>>2448810
What did we use the palmaris muscle for?

>>2448810
hey i have one of those, I thought it was just a vein or something

>>2448811
The theory is that it was to increase wrist flexibility, since that seems to be its purpose in apes and monkeys. But our wrists became more flexible on their own so we don't need the extra assist.

>>2448817
Hey, thanks for the info, Anon. It's nice to learn new things every day.