From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 21:58:56 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> 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?
I don't know. Perhaps spike66 will tell us more. I only recall learning
of the theory that loss of the ability to produce vitamin C was the
catalyst for the rapid changes in homo sapiens vs other primates.
-gts
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