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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: Anonymous 2007-07-26 7:31 ID:u8WRnNnj

>>11
Well, that's what I said, there has to be at least a selective pressure. >>6 didn't mention that, only replication, mutation, and limited resources.

As for limited resources: there are a finite number of brains but
the chance of selection has to be directly related to the fitness of the unit of selection. I don't see how that works with memes: how does a fit meme help its carrier survive?

>>17
Oh lawd, is dat sum devolution fallacy?

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