Ecosystem engineers: The intriguing ways humans are still evolving Lauren Leffer | Popular Science | July 26, 2024

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/07/26/ecosystem-engineers-the-intriguing-ways-humans-are-still-evolving/?mc_cid=c522817a55&mc_eid=b73600b7ac We know that humans have altered our environment in innumerable ways–changing the very air, water, and soil that we rely on as the most successful “ecosystem engineers” on Earth. It can be easy, amid all that change, to assume that we’ve conquered biology and eliminated the effects of evolution and natural selection on our species. But that’s not what the science says.