To: Soliton
The human brain is the most genetically complex brain ever. It went from animal to advanced architecture over a span of 200,000 years. That is unheard of speed of evolution and natural selection cannot explain it.
Warfare is an unusual branch of evolution and I've never heard it classified as natural selection. Is the atomic bomb going off in Japan natural? Was the extermination of 6 million Jews during WWII natural? Of the European Jews that survived is their IQ being measurably higher than the total Jewish population before the war natural? Could their unusual intelligence be the result of 2,000 years of unnatural persecution? I'm failing to see how war is the definition of natural selection.
54 posted on
08/08/2008 3:34:20 PM PDT by
Reeses
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To: Reeses
That is unheard of speed of evolution and natural selection cannot explain it.Cite a source on brain evolution please
55 posted on
08/08/2008 3:36:31 PM PDT by
Soliton
(> 100)
To: Reeses
The human brain is the most genetically complex brain ever. It went from animal to advanced architecture over a span of 200,000 years. That is unheard of speed of evolution and natural selection cannot explain it. That is not what I learned when I was in graduate school. Look back to the early Homo species and note the brain sizes.
What you are suggesting is that the size increases and associated cultural advancements were accompanied by no increase in brain complexity. That is pretty dubious.
57 posted on
08/08/2008 3:50:07 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
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