Covid has been the ultimate confirmation: we're in the post-truth age.
Lets hope we'll be able to look back on this period in history, and evolve to be better than this.
Lets hope we'll be able to look back on this period in history, and evolve to be better than this.
No it doesn't. Evolution occurs due to change in allele frequency in a population over time. Relative death rate of certain organisms in a given environment is certainly a mechanism for this change in frequency, but it is not necessary for evolution to occur.
[edit] Rather, not the core drivers but the core direction-setters.