(November 11, 2012 at 5:24 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: And surely our considerably bigger brain size would have had something to do with that. I doubt that that's just neutral genes. It could have just been a coincidence but it would have to be a pretty big one. It seems much more likely to me that natural selection favored a bigger brain in our case.
Most, if not all philosophers, would argue that there are no coincidences. I would agree that natural selection "selects" precisely what "it" needs.