(March 15, 2015 at 5:18 am)robvalue Wrote: I remember someone saying that two key changes that led to humans being as intelligent as they are were what you would normally consider "bad" changes, but somehow luckily ended up in our favour. Can't remember the details! Something to do with our brains I think.
I have a pet theory which is down to cannibalism or possibly war.
I can think of no better spur to a single species evolution than to be it's own prey and predator, sprinkle in chimp level smarts and rudimentary language, et viola humans.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
