Medicine does not bypass evolution; it is just evolution in a different form. Groups of people who have brains that are adept at developing and applying modern medicine survive more and pass along their brains to their children.

Does medicine affect evolution?

Medicine is a scientific practice that affects human evolution by contributing to the human niche construction. ... This new environment has been fundamental in decreasing the mortality rate of human populations and in expanding our life expectancy. At the same time, it favors the emergence of resistant strain of bacteria.

Why does evolution not happen anymore?

The basic rationale behind the conclusion that human evolution has stopped is that once the human lineage had achieved a sufficiently large brain and had developed a sufficiently sophisticated culture (sometime around 40,000–50,000 years ago according to Gould, but more commonly placed at 10,000 years ago with the ...