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6 February 2011

Clearly, yes

From “Are we taking evolution into our own hands?“:

Today we continue to live the same process, but in an enormously accelerated fashion. For better and worse we are transforming ourselves from a Homo sapiens, a species aware of its environment, into a Homo evolutis, a species that directly and deliberately begins to control its own evolution, as well as that of many other species.

I’d add that we are now a species that can directly and indirectly alter the evolution and survival of the entire planet – and have been for decades.

(CNN)