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Fuzzwood

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  1. It just happens. The DNA machinery isn't as perfect as you believe it to be. Copying DNA has a small chance of slipping errors into the copy which can influence development to a large extent, especially when this happens in the gamete stage. Depending on the environment (there we go) the organism with the mutation may or may not have a better chance to get laid (and thus pass on the mutation) than the organism without the mutation.

  2. No harm done and I agree. Indeed, it is a process and many of its footprints and changes can be tracked by means of fossils. However, it is not a process towards a set end goal nor will it ever be 'complete'.

  3. Nature didn't design anything. Don't pretend that evolution had any kind of conscious.

     

    Also it seems that the more social archetype actually survived. The Neanderthaler tribes were self-sustaining and there was little to no interaction between settlements, in contrast to the homo-erectus tribes that got a very primitive foreign aid going (one village helps another through a harsh winter and the first village is bound to receive help when they need it from the other village).

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