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Comment by randomwalker

Were you trying to be funny (if so, a smiley would help a lot), or do you not get that evolution works on a different time scale? Cultural evolution has dramatically outpaced biological evolution in humans in the last millenium, making the latter irrelevant.

In the realm of intelligence, cultural progress (which encompasses better education, nutrition, technology, and everything else) has led to the Flynn effect, a gain of 3-5 IQ points per decade. Biological evolution in Homo sapiens has given us at most 100 IQ points (but probably closer to 50) in the last 74,000 years. The former is three orders of magnitude faster!

parent randomwalker 18 years ago

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