Human Evolution Over

Big thought for the morning: Human evolution is over and done with. That’s the claim of British professor Steve Jones, who says human civilization has undermined the three components of evolution—natural selection, mutation, and random change. Let’s take random change. Isolated populations make for random genes. But we “humans are 10,000 times more common than we should be,” Jones says, all but ruling out an isolated population. Harrowing thought from Jones: “[I]f you are worried about what utopia is going to be like, don't; at least in the developed world, and at least for the time being, you are living in it now.”