posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 08:40pm on 2010-05-15
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.
 
posted by (anonymous) at 05:37am on 2010-05-16
Koestler's not the greatest one to listen to on this subject;
his one big work was debunked almost as soon as it came out.

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