re: Why do people always say "I didn't evolve from a monkey?"

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We still aren't evolving to be fatter.

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No question. We're not even evolving to be "bigger" than we were several hundred years ago. Humans have gotten larger much more recently due to health and nutritional advancements, not evolution.

We've become obese due to an evolutionary trait that makes us desire what was once scarce but what is now in complete abundance.