Wikimedia Commons When we learn about evolution in school, it feels old and slow. (Charles Darwin's impressive beard later in life probably doesn't help here.)

But evolution is very much still happening today — and it's happening to us.

Right here, right now.

It's too soon to say what humans will look like a few thousand years from now, but here are some of the most recent quirks — and even superpowers — we've acquired thanks to the power of selection.