Humanity has lived in cities for around 10,000 years. Evolutionarily a blip—we’ve been Homo Sapiens for 200,000 years. 10,000 years is long enough for simple, useful evolution (such as the spread of a gene for digesting milk). Not enough for complex behaviors, especially with a huge transnational interbreeding population tending to stir up genes and cause “regression toward the mean”.
Humanity has lived in cities for around 10,000 years. Evolutionarily a blip—we’ve been Homo Sapiens for 200,000 years. 10,000 years is long enough for simple, useful evolution (such as the spread of a gene for digesting milk). Not enough for complex behaviors, especially with a huge transnational interbreeding population tending to stir up genes and cause “regression toward the mean”.