(I'm almost certain that this has ben discussed here before but I cannot find evidence of it... apologies...)
Assuming that evolution in some form exists.
Is it now the case that humans have effectively Halted our evolutionary development?
On one level, medical advances now dictate that, for the most part, very few disabilities (evolutionary mutations) will result in premature death, or prohibit procreation and transmission of these "defective" genes.
For instance, I am asthmatic, I would not be here if it were not for the drugs I take or the hospital care I recieved as a child.
Now if I had been born maybe 100? 200? years ago, my chances of survival would have been slim, and then only if I had been born into a wealthy family.
On another level, in the pre-technology exitance of mankind, our environment, our surroundings determined the path of our evolution, our upright stance enabled us to eat from higher trees, or perhaps hunt more efficiently.
Now though, we are creating our surroundings, our environment is being designed/built to fit us. Ergonomics dictates that our world evolves so as best to suit us. not the other way around.
Does this mean that this is the end of our physical evolution? What does evolution hold in store for us? will it be mental evolution? spiritual evolution?
What next?