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Evolution affects humans too.

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-23 14:00 ID:18P5eNQm

I present to you 5 facts.

1: Civilisation started after early homosapiens migrated from Africa into hostile ice age Europe.
2: Adaptions occur more frequently when an animal enters a new environment.
3: By far the most important adaption in recent human evolution is the brain. A neanderthal with a human brain would not be significantly worse or better off than a human.
4: Physical adaptions take longer to evolve than the simple increase in size of the neo-cortex.
5: Humans do have a plethora of physical adaptions to various environments.

Name: 4tran 2007-07-23 22:55 ID:W2wiiL/S

>>1
#3 is not universally agreed upon; some posit that they may even be smarter than we were.

>>2
Hitler invaded Russia without providing his troops adequate winter support.

>>3
Dawkins is alive last I checked.

>>4,5
It depends on how you define evolution.  If you define it solely as "genetic changes over time", then those statements don't make much sense.  I define them as "gradual, but not completely random changes in statisitcal averages".  By that definition, memes can be considered to "evolve".

>>6,7,8
Agreed.

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