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To: Brumar89 who wrote (184114)	3/25/2006 3:31:27 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You figure the difference in intelligence, creativity, not to mention such things as spirituality, art, music, language, etc. are all going to be found on the genome. Suppose they are. We will get definitive answers on that IMO. Next question would be what evolutionary purpose did they serve - why did natural selection select for these things. And most likely more speculative answers on that. Indeed, our species is about 150K years old, they say. But only in the last century have our intellectual abilities reached their potential. What was that potential doing sitting there 149,900 years uselessly doing nothing? Some might argue, looking around at the world today, that we need a tad more intellect if we are to avoid disaster of our own making.