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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
or is an accumalation of knowledge evolution?
No you dont understand. Evolution,weather it micro or macro is driven by the stress the environement places on a given species. Evolution,it would seems,is the natural mechanism that living organism are endowed with to respond to that stress. And if you go from there,then it would appear logical that the rate of evolution is directly related to the amount of stress the environement places on living organism. Human beings have a rather unique ability of being capable to almost completely adapt its environement to fit THEIR needs,thus considerably reducing the stress the environement normally imposes on us and by extention,reducing our biological need to "mutate" if you will,to adapt to this environement.
[This message has been edited by LudvanB, 02-11-2002]