Were you a natural or Caesarean birth? Interesting article on human evolution follows ...

[dud]

The subject of natural vice non-natural (Caesarean) births has fascinated me for a long time. Prior to 100 years ago there were no Caesarean births as this is a relative new procedure in human history. Fast forward to today and I hit paydirt on the subject:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38210837

The bottom-line conclusion for this article is that human evolution is being affected via Caesarean births:

"Without modern medical intervention such problems often were lethal and this is, from an evolutionary perspective, selection.

Women with a very narrow pelvis would not have survived birth 100 years ago. They do now and pass on their genes encoding for a narrow pelvis to their daughters."



Interesting ...

Your thoughts?

 

[IronWing]

Next time civilization takes a powder there is going to be a whole lot a pain. Que the Queen song.

 

[highland145]

It is sooo good to be a guy.

 

[JTsyo]

Humans have really transcended evolution. There's more social/economical pressures on humans than genetic. Before any of this can make much of a difference, which would be tens of thousands of years, we will have cracked DNA editing.

 

[Linflas]

Been around since BC times so hardly a new procedure other than the mother surviving the procedure in modern times. More fascinating is Romans actually did cataract surgery, that one boggle the mind.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Of all the skinny women with narrow pelvis', I would take a guess that those that have this problem the worst might lean more towards an Asian descent? Asians also statistically have a higher IQ, soooo this sounds like a good thing?

 

[Brainonska511]

Humans have really transcended evolution. There's more social/economical pressures on humans than genetic. Before any of this can make much of a difference, which would be tens of thousands of years, we will have cracked DNA editing.

Human evolution is still happening and making differences in populations.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/humans-are-still-evolving-and-we-can-watch-it-happen

 

[rh71]

Without modern medicine people would still die earlier and population wouldn't be so out of control - jobs wouldn't be so difficult to find, etc.

And because of a lower population, we'd also have smaller chances for technological breakthroughs enriching our lives.