By Paul Voosen. Last year, when Sir David Attenborough, the British naturalist and broadcaster,
speculated that human beings had ended natural selection through cultural and technological innovations, he got a
deserved amount of
blowback. The criticism started with his toy-model view of evolution, and went from there. But beneath it all, there was one lingering question: Was he getting at, in any way, a kernel of truth?
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