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To: Solon who wrote (5943)	3/12/2003 8:42:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

The reason I asked you for your explanation in the first place was that it is commonplace for many to "complain" that human nature has not changed over the millennia. I'm not complaining. I'm not sure I would want it to change that much. To tell you the truth, I have never heard it biologically or philosophically asserted that human nature has not changed--at least, not that I remember. It was thus a curiosity to me when you made such an unusual statement. Did you pick it up in a theology course? I would certainly appreciate reading about such a theory. Now, I don't think it was in any course much less one about theology. Its just a general observation from my own knowledge of history and to an extent philosophy and from reasing other people's obeservations about humanity. To be honest I never thought of it as something controversial or extreme or unusal, more of a common sense thing... In a previous post I mentioned how phyla have changed to reflect adaptive changes of nature. Would you agree that the nature of many creatures has changed in a very overt fashion in the last 5000 years? I agree that some species have changed dramatically if 5000 years. I think human evolution is slowed down by the fact that we can adapt out environment to fit us rather then having to adapt to our environment, but evolution still happens. Tim