My laymen and superficial understanding of the situation is that humans do continue to evolve but our genome is also degrading in terms of building up mutations

My laymen and superficial understanding of the situation is that humans do continue to evolve but our genome is also degrading in terms of building up mutations. https://www.nature.com/articles/news990204-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/news990204-2 If we're evolving, I don't think it's anywhere close to the rate of increase of our technology.