I thought about this last night for some reason and wondered if i'd stumbled on something interesting...
With the reported massive rise in obesity over the last decade or so and the increasing percentage of overweight people in pretty much every western society....is there an argument to say this is natural selection in action?
I mean if there's such an increase and any actions to stop it seem to be making no/little difference, is this just the natural world responding to our conditions in some way? Can it not be stopped because this is some form of fundamental change in human kind? Like how we've generally got taller since paliolithic times, is this a reaction to our environment in some way?
I propose (albeit in a half-baked, half-assed kind of way) that the obesity increasingly finding it's way into our societies is a natural evolution of mankind and something meant to happen.
Discuss!
With the reported massive rise in obesity over the last decade or so and the increasing percentage of overweight people in pretty much every western society....is there an argument to say this is natural selection in action?
I mean if there's such an increase and any actions to stop it seem to be making no/little difference, is this just the natural world responding to our conditions in some way? Can it not be stopped because this is some form of fundamental change in human kind? Like how we've generally got taller since paliolithic times, is this a reaction to our environment in some way?
I propose (albeit in a half-baked, half-assed kind of way) that the obesity increasingly finding it's way into our societies is a natural evolution of mankind and something meant to happen.
Discuss!
