Has the Rise in C-sections Affected Human Evolution?

Has the Rise in C-sections Affected Human Evolution?

Human ingenuity increasingly allows us to fight back against “natural selection” and, in effect, influence the path of our own evolution. 

Take Cesarean sections, the procedure in which babies are born via surgical incision rather than through the mother's birth canal. Some form of the procedure has been around for hundreds of years, but only in the past few decades has it become commonplace.



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