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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3265)	1/12/2006 6:32:30 PM
From: Crabbe	Respond to of 220388

I will grant you that we are smarter than Australopithecus Africanus (chimp like), possibly smarter than Nethanderal man (he had a larger cranial cavity), but we coexisted and eliminated him, probably smarter than Homo Erectus, but there would be great question as to whether we are significantly smarter, if at all,than early Homo Sapien. So yes we are smarter than 100,000 years ago. however 10000 years ago?????? I think you over rate your own survivor abilities. None of the above existed in the Garden of Eden. Remember you would be placed there without so much as a shoe string. Figure out how you would make a spear. How would you cut the stick, how would you create the point, how would you create the binding for the point to the stick. How would you protect yourself with your untanned nude body from the sun. How would you build a fire, sorry but your handy barbeque lighter is back in the twentieth century. No shoes your feet would be raw in few hours of walking. But your big modern brain could of course solve all these problems should you be placed somewhere without mosquitos like you would find in the middle of summer in Alaska (nude human life expectancy 30 minutes). Or away from any significant predators such as bears, wolves, tigers, lions, jackals, hyena, etc. I think the Saber Tooth would go to sleep with a full stomach. Changing the subject slightly where do you come up with the idea that greater population means faster evolution? In a population of 6,000,000,000 there certainly will be more mutations, but there is also a much longer period of time for the percentage of people that receive that single mutation to spread to a significant percentage of the population. Given that a gene that increases the intelligence occurs in one individual. 25 years later he has passed this new mutation to three children, 25 years later his children have passed it on to 9 children, ...27 children, ...81 children (were it dominate and were both genes mutated at the same time) Oops the 20th century is gone. BTW his neighbor down the street just had a mutation that had exactly the opposite effect. net 81 smarter - 81 dumber. No gain. True in 10,000 years the advantageous gene would have spread and the dumb gene would probably have died out. The Flynn Effect however occurred with just 4 generations. Selective breeding in foxes in Russia took approximately 20 generations to go from a wild fox to a truly tame, like a dog, fox. Unfortunately they looked like puppies and their fur was much less valuable.