Compared to people in the 19th Century, modern people are taller, heavier, and experience menarche at an earlier age but we can’t say whether that has anything to do with natural selection.

Natural selection, the evolutionary process that guides which traits become more common in a population, has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research ...

When they looked at the modern data alone, they found no instances of selection. But when they examined ancient genomes, they found 11 sweeps.

The bottom line is that modern empirical natural science is one of the most powerful systems of justification humans have ever constructed. And it turns out that it can be framed by a central concept.