Important Things to Know About Humans

V. The Most Adaptive Species  ↑

35. Our species evolves via genetic evolution.

As with all species of life on Earth, we use genetic evolution to adapt to varying environments.

Genetic evolution, however, is somewhat slow, especially for long-lived organisms such as humans, and is also haphazard by nature.

The blind watchmaker can create wonderful things, but he operates pretty slowly, and relies on trial and error.


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