(urth) The problem of Cthulhu

[Andy Robertson]

brunians at brunians.org writes: 

> The species is a million years old and for 990,000 of those years we were
> sort of half-smart animals scraping out a living. Then, all of a sudden,
> ten thousand years ago, something happened, and now we're flying in space. 
> 
 

Could be a mutation. 

Genetic studies claim to show that genes that control the brain are evolving 
fast, and by  fast I mean in historical, not geological, time. 

Bruce Lahn claims that one gene that first appeared in Europe (by mutation, 
in one person) about 4000 BC has now spread to a quarter of the human race. 

It must do something important. 

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050922/brainevolution.shtml 

That's a startling fact if you like.  If true. 

 

I like your other ideas but don't much credit the interbreeding thing. 

OTOH Neanderthals as grendels I can swallow. 


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