RE: Flies-Faith-Fantasy

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 20:15:35 MDT


At 04:03 PM 9/23/02 -0400, gts wrote:

>> What's all this about humans evolving faster than other apes?
>
>When I first heard this idea it was I think in reference mainly to the
>dramatic and sudden increase in the ratio of brain size to body size in
>humans vs. other primates.

And how precisely is this calibrated against the rate of change of
adaptations--salient to their niches--in the other apes over the last few
million years?

Damien Broderick



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