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Are Humans Still Evolving?



Christopher Dye

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Posted: Jun 1, 2009


Christopher Dye spoke at Gresham College in London March 26, 2009. It was thought that the dramatic extension of life spans during the 20th century eliminated natural selection, but new evidence shows that to be false. Will selection always be natural, or could postmodern also mean posthuman?  Christopher Dye is Director of Health Information in the Office of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.

 


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