End of Human Evolution, Says Geneticist

London: A geneticist @ the University College London, named Steve Jones said that the dramatic fall in mutations being passed on is bringing the evolution for the human kind to an end. He made the claim during this week in his lecture which he called "Human Evolution is Over."

Jones says that most of the world’s developed regions have shifted away from the powerful men fathering dozens, even hundreds of offspring up until their 60s and 70s, when mutations go up. Now, only a few offspring are sired while in their 20s and 30s.

Natural selection pressures have also been reduced due to better child survival rates, which in antiquity were abysmal. Unusual traits can also no longer take hold due to a mobile population that has all but eliminated isolated populations