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Do glasses lead to bad eyesight evolving?

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08-13-2010 7:00 PM

My wife and I went to the optometrist and had our eyes examined yesterday. Afterward we had a conversation about evolution and eyesight.
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Is the human race getting progressively worse in eyesight? 400 years ago my wife probably would never have survived to adulthood with her eyes. Today she can not only survive, but is a physician and capable of passing on her genes.
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Is our ability to provide enhancements to our bodies causing traits like bad eyesight to become more prevalent in future generations?
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08-13-2010 7:27 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Theodoric
08-13-2010 7:00 PM

Topic title change?
Is our ability to provide enhancements to our bodies causing traits like bad eyesight to become more prevalent in future generations?
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The above quoted seems to be the real topic theme, while the current topic title ("Evolution and eyesight") seems to invite debate on eyesight evolution.
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Message 1 is fine and adequate, but could you come up with a compressed version of the quoted to serve as the topic title? Edit topic title via editing message 1.
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08-13-2010 9:32 PM

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