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Evolution is a result, not a method. Nothing ever evolves to do anything.

• 6d6b73 11y ago
  "The immune system evolved to discriminate infectious nonself from noninfectious self" http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-G http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-G "We propose that humans have evolved to withstand energy crises by decreasing their body size" http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v64/n1/abs/pr2008135a.html http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v64/n1/abs/pr2008135a.html :humans evolved to modulate social behaviors like mating and parenting in response to specific environmental cues: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-3760-0_9#page-1 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-3760-0... After just few seconds of search.. So apparently some scientists didn't get the memo. Hopefully some day you will also evolve to be less nitpicky.
• frankzinger 11y ago
  Wow, is that really how you read your parent? I thought his meaning was crystal clear. Why just assume he doesn't understand evolution?
  • recycleme 11y ago
    He's not wrong. He's correcting the improper use of the word. However, I would say evolution has results but is actually a process.
    • debacle 11y ago
      Yeah, evolution is definitely a cycle, but it can also be a state (mankind's current state of evolution). Maybe I could have been more clear about that.
  • debacle 11y ago
    It's an important distinction. Evolution is definitely not prescriptive of what an organism can and can't do except as a result of trial and error.