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why DID we evolve into humans?

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Morte
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08-03-2004 5:21 AM 		Reply to: Message 3 by DBlevins
06-22-2003 12:22 AM

(I apologize as I haven't read the entire thread, but this reminded me of a quote)
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I think the problem you're confronting is in describing evolution as being "motivated" toward some goal. Simplistically stated, we evolved into what we are by a process of natural selection. There wasn't a stated goal to where we would be headed.
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"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"
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-Richard Feynman
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...the point being (in the way I'm using it) that, the probability seems much more extraordinary in retrospect. Of all the things to evolve into, we evolved into humans!
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