"The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of
prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a
species with an organ which it does not know how to use." --
Arthur Koestler
Evolution doesn't "overshoot"; neither does it "provide." Could we please start talking about evolution without talking about teleology, maybe? Would that be too hard? Evolution is a consequense, not even a process, and certainly not something entity-like.
In fact, that understanding is pretty much exactly backwards -- ancestral humans overshot their brains in an environmental sense, so their brains evolved to be better in response to environmental selection pressures.
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In fact, that understanding is pretty much exactly backwards -- ancestral humans overshot their brains in an environmental sense, so their brains evolved to be better in response to environmental selection pressures.
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his one big work was debunked almost as soon as it came out.