RE: Evolution of ontogeny

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 13:36:45 GMT

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    On 02/04/01 21:13, Lawrence DeBivort said this-

    >And we have had no evidence so far that the human being has evolved over
    >the last 50 or so millennia....
    >
    >But lots and lots of history to mandate that we haven't.
    >
    >LdB:
    >Can you say more about what you mean here? Thanks

    The physical being that is the human ain't changed, to my knowledge,
    sparse as it is. And the historical record would indicate that behaviors
    and societies haven't changed, either.

    _Do_ we have any evidence that homo sapiens sapiens has evolved over the
    last 50 millennia?

    - Wade

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