RE: Richard Dawkin's big blunder
March 22, 2014 at 7:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2014 at 7:52 pm by Heywood.)
(March 22, 2014 at 7:39 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I guess crocodiles and sharks are the most complex, diverse and knowledgeable living creatures on Earth, seeing as they haven't evolved much in the past tens of millions of years...
Evolution hits plateaus. When I posted the definition I acknowledged that sometimes evolution does not lead to an increase of those things. In the case of crocs lots of evolution has been happening but not a whole of increase in diversity, complexity, or information.
I suspect that human biology has hit a plateau. I don't see us getting any more intelligent. As a civilization we will get more intelligent but in terms of individual raw intellect....the average human brain 100,000 years from now won't be any smarter than the average human brain today. Of course we could merge with machines and then all bets would be off.
