Human Interest

Natural Selection 2.0: Darwin Day Predicts if 'Tech-Necks' & 'Scrolling Thumbs' Are the Future of Humanity

Evolution usually takes millions of years, but walk into any coffee shop and you’d swear we are mutating in real-time. It is nearly February 12 - Darwin Day. If old Charles were alive today, sitting in a Starbucks and watching us hunch over glowing rectangles like acolytes at an altar, he might just scratch his beard in confusion. We often joke about the "descent of man" turning into the "ascent of the smartphone," but let's be serious for a minute. Look around. The curvature of the spine is changing. The thumb is doing heavy lifting it was never designed for. Are we witnessing Natural Selection 2.0, or are we just ruining our posture? I saw a teenager at the bus stop yesterday who was bent over so far I thought he was looking for a contact lens. He wasn't. He was just doom-scrolling. My chiropractor calls it "Tech-Neck." I call ...

Devyani
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