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I'm not sure "evolution" is on the table for humanity any longer. For one thing, evolutionary pressures don't really exist for humanity, outside of the most undeveloped areas.
Not making it to "breeding age" (feels weird to say that in the context of humans) doesn't really have anything to do with fitness any longer, more just luck.
Add in the fact that we basically already have the ability to manipulate human genes - and I think it's far more likely that we'll just start tinkering with our genetic code deliberately, as opposed to what we think of as evolution
Humans will go through a period of devolution now, where the population will get even lazier and dumber. It's clearly one of the goals to dumb people down so they can be controlled by their simple urges.
I feel sorry for kids today. It's going to be rough growing up in this shit hole.
That has nothing to do with evolution and "de-evolution" isn't a thing.