(May 8, 2017 at 2:22 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 8, 2017 at 1:52 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: But mutations do not have to happen in isolation, one after the other, there are many different mutations in the entire population and any could help the development of whatever directly or indirectly and come together as the population breeds. There are currently 7,000,000,000 humans mutating and breeding and apparently evolution has sped up as a result. our brains have shrunk rather alarmingly for one thing.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...ution.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-...-shrinking
I guess that rules out the Tomorrow People. Our future is Idiocracy. Sounds about right.
Actually, the human brain has shrunk in a strict sense, but has developed a denser and more efficient structure which in turn has lead to increasing intelligence. There's also the factor of our bodies being less muscular than they needed to be tens of thousands of years ago, since the vast majority of us are no longer vulnerable to death-by-leopard. This has freed up computing capacity for higher-level thinking.
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