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What bothers me about the evolution of Man

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Dogmafood
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12-02-2011 9:30 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by frako
12-02-2011 7:48 AM

How did our brains get so overpowering.
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Imperfect replication, competition and LOTS of time. Whenever I contemplate how something got to be that way I always come back to considering the span of time. We can easily envision the passage of a hundred yrs. maybe even a thousand. But 10,000? or 100,000 yrs?
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Just a mind-numbingly slow accumulation of useful bits.
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Dogmafood
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12-07-2011 7:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 96 by Moon-Ra
12-07-2011 6:46 PM

You have to remember that natural selection (and therefore brain evolution) stopped in humans thousands of years ago,
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What about the next big asteroid or if Yellowstone blows again? What about the next plague or massive crop failures? I don't think that you measure much evolution in terms of thousands of years.
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