RE: Technology's effect on evolution
April 18, 2012 at 10:16 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 10:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No, you don't "evolve to better survive". Some things are better evolved to survive a specific scenario (and they may have been so for a great span of time before this specific scenario presented itself). This has been the longest running popular misconception of what evolution is or how it is accomplished. It was once so codified in the minds of men that the picture of evolution was one of a steady march towards something resembling western scholars. IE, that given enough time all creatures would evolve into little Darwins and Einsteins, specifically that human beings were some sort of pinnacle in the evolutionary process. Directed towards the goal of survival by some unseen means. This is not the case. NS is not a director of life, it is a winnower of life.
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