Though not likely to happen in the near future, the consequences of a society in this state could be dire.
What if that medication were to run out — would we still be able to reproduce?
Though it’s certainly not yet clear that this is a course that the human race will take for some time, but cultural ecology tells us that adaptations such as this are a serious consequence of widespread societal use of pills as a means of stimulating reproductive success.
Cultural ecology studies how human culture impacts the past and future of human evolution. For the majority of evolutionary history, aspects of a species’ environment have largely determined how that species adapts to living in its environment. Through small, random physiological changes, members of the species that develop adaptations that make them better suited for survival in a particular environment are more likely to survive and produce more offspring with similar traits.
