cliveb wrote: > People are always banging on about how evolution has operated to protect > humans from predators, but it has always struck me as a somewhat lazy > assumption.
It is of course a gross simplification. Evolution has operated to ensure human survival and reproduction. Whatever specific forms it takes is harder to figure out. > If avoiding bloodthirsty predators was so important to the survival of > the human race, why hasn't natural selection eliminated the gene(s) that > cause children to make a lot of noise? :) Do children make a lot of noise when they get scared? Perhaps they mostly make a lot of noise when they want the attention of their parents (as when they get lost/separated from their parents), and that has proven to be a more sustainable trait? "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
