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There are still selection pressures, only they are more focused on sexual selection rather than survival selection. There still remain advantages to being smart healthy and athletic. What has changed is the lower bound on these required for survival. What has happened to pressures on these required for reproduction seems like a much harder to judge question.

Certainly though, those with advantageous mutations seem to have a better chance of reproduction.



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