Humans increasingly control and redesign their own evolved biological systems

Evidence

The growth of knowledge is increasingly enhancing human power to control, transform, and create environments of increasing complexity and consequence. This creative power is even being extended to the modification of biological features. Through ingenious contraceptive methods that disconnected sex from procreation, humans have outwitted and taken control over their evolved reproductive systems to prevent impregnation. They are developing reproductive technologies to separate sex even from fertilization. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Human intervention into reproductive biology parallels the vault’s broader interest in humans remaking nature that was framed in the tree infrastructure piece. — connects to: Biological agents and man-caused change both sit on one disturbance continuum. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 1109; Cooking evolved culturally and reshaped human digestive anatomy and function — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 224
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 186