RE: Caesarian births directly affecting human evolution
December 7, 2016 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2016 at 1:14 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 7, 2016 at 1:09 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote:(December 6, 2016 at 12:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Human evolution in the Darwinian sense has been screwed since Homo Erectus began caring for injured members of the group. We have skeletal remains showing healed leg fractures going back over a million years bp. In order for that person to survive long enough to have the bone heal other members of the group/clan had to take care of him. Other animals simply do not do that. If a lion is injured in a hunt it either lives or dies on its own.
Min if you've noticed lions are pretty much fucked. We aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Yes, but the gene pool that produced the hunting rifle also produced a vast nuclear weapon arsenal under the command of trump. It is by no means clear that we would not actually go somewhat before the soon to be extinct lions.
The genes that produced a facility for what we self-flatteringly call intelligence are not absolutely for sure an unbeatable survival advantage upon final analysis.