The Human Animal (Animals)

by David Turell , Monday, June 07, 2010, 19:35 (5282 days ago) @ dhw


> If we accept that humans are descended from other animals, does this mean that the expansion of the brain led to greater complexity of thought, and if so, why did the brain expand? Alternatively, did greater complexity of thought lead to an expansion of the brain, and if so, where did the thought come from?-Why did the brain get so big? The title of my chapter on this issue is "Our Hat Size is Too Big For Darwin". Think about it. Chimps and other great apes did not enlarge theirs, in the six million years since the split. The huge brain with its billions of synapses is way beyond the simple needs of survival. The apes have proven that. So what drove the brain to enlarge and become so complex? There is no clear answer. If anything we are a danger to the planet. The silver-backs are in trouble because of us. What I have just stated turns Darwinism on its head. If natural selection is the driving force to complexity and survival, all on a chance mutational basis, why did it happen, if it was not needed? This is why I conclude it was originally coded into the complex layers of genetic material at the start of life.