"Our species is not static"

Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago, according to anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin. 
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Africans have new genes providing resistance to malaria. In Europeans, there is a gene that makes them better able to digest milk as adults. In Asians, there is a gene that makes ear wax more dry.

Study finds people on different continents are increasingly different from each other.

Rapid population growth has been coupled with vast changes in cultures and ecology, creating new opportunities for adaptation.

At the same time, many people from New Agers to Sri Aurbindo to Teilhard de Chardin to Ken Wilber see a quickening in spiritual evolution.

Simultaneously, there is a devolution going on in many parts of the world where Islamic fundamentalism of the Wahhabi sort holds sway, intent on bringing back the eighth century.