Maybe we're NOT on the wrong planet...please read

Post Reply New Topic

Dull and monotonous from your perspective, but that's highly subjective. They don't find themselves dull and monotonous. And many of them may find you dull and monotonous.

Besides which, having an interesting life does not make you evolutionarily advantaged. There is a kind of frog who lives in the desert. They burrow into the ground and hibernate for years at a time. When there's a rare rainfall, they come out, eat, breed, lay eggs, raise their fast-maturing tadpoles and then return to hibernation for several more years. I certainly would find it very dull to be that species of frog, but they are an evolutionary success.

"Evolution is usually very a slow process. Only time you see rapid evolution is when a large proportion of the population is failing to reproduce (either dying young or just not having kids). Most often you see this in relation to disease immunity - for example in Africa right now there's been a dramatic increase in the proportion of the population carrying the genes causing immunity to HIV. (Note - evolution depends on how long it takes for a generation to pass, so longer-lived creatures evolve more slowly.)"

Actually, there is a book out that makes a very compelling case that human evolution has sped up approximately a hundred times in the last ten thousand years:

http://www.amazon.com/The-000-Year-Expl ... +explosion