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This way you can define evolution to mean absolutely anything, at which point the word loses its meaning.

If we stick to traditional, useful definition of biological evolution, then we can confidently say that it stopped being the driving force for plant and animal life no later than when we've first learned to communicate and remember ideas; we've made it irrelevant when we've learned to write. It still works on microscale, but that's mostly because things breed and die faster at that scale, there's more of it, and we can't efficiently poke at it with any sort of precision.



Eh, you could argue evolution is still relevant in human populations up till today.




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