Re: Hominins Ate Tubers And Bulbs

Day Brown:
Just the kind of thing Stuart Kauffman talks about in the "Origins of
Order" that produces the most rapid evolution. Enough inbreeding goes
on long enough for some trait to reach significant functional
advantage, and then when conditions permit it to leave isolation, it
rapidly replaces less adaptive varieties.

I didn't read what Kauffman says, and the idea generally looks
alright. The only problem is that we have to completly RETHINK the view we
have about our evolution. Today's view is that we are the most evolved of
all the animals, hence we are so smart and beautiful. The TRUTH is that we
are ugly bastards, which evolved about two times slower than chimps. Chimps
evolved about two times faster than humans (which can clearly be seen from
our genomes).
So, if these conditions are good for rapid evolution (and your
assumption is that we evolved rapidly, hence we evolved in conditions which
prefer rapid evolution), then we definitely DIDN'T evolve in those
conditions. -- Mario


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