# Are human beings still evolving?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Dye
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/are-human-beings-still-evolving)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely long enough to have become fully evolved? 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?

## Lectures

1. [Are human beings still evolving?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/are-human-beings-still-evolving/ea50129bbba2) (YouTube)