Re: Article: Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint

JoeSixPack <olegp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:

> I think it's shocking just how few actually do understand it. I think the
> process has been mis-stated so many times that it has become a type of
> "common knowledge" that evolution is following some paced, unknown course,
> taking us in some predetermined direction as though by intelligent design.
> Even authors of books who are trained in the sciences are guilty of
> propagating this mythology.

If aliens have gone through stages of having binocular vision and mobile
phones and inventing genetic engineering, "mythology" may be a rather
inappropriate term.

Convergence looks like a powerful effect. It may not have *complete*
control over the development of living organisms, but its effect
looks powerful nontheless - so the idea of there being a "predetermined
direction" to evolution may well be pretty-much correct.
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