You'll find that today's alpha humans are substantially more intelligent, depending on how you define intelligence, and many of us only operate on 4-5 hours of sleep per night. A quick trip to google will show that many people are indeed talking about it, and these are some off their observations. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
--- Begin Message ---As I understand one basic premise of the theory of evolution, survival of the fittest prefers individuals that live longer, breed faster and leave more progeny. Yet two traits we possess – sleep and intelligence – seem to contradict this preference. Sleep works against survival for, while sleeping, an individual can hardly defend against attack and consumption. So evolution would seem to have selected those individuals needing less and less sleep, until sleep would no longer be needed. Yet today, maybe one billion years after speciation began, we still need our 8 hours of sleep. Intelligence also seems to disprove the all-encompassing scope of evolution. Those individuals better able to recall experience and predict the future would have an advantage in food-gathering, mate selection and progeny protection. Yet we hardly seem smarter today than humans living thousands of years ago. Are these traits exceptions to evolution? Are there other exceptions? I expect so. But no one discusses them. Why not? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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