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> Human brains can evolve by chance. What do you mean by this?

• rohanprabhu 8y ago
  Not OP, but I think they are referring to the basic premise of evolution. We still don't have a concrete theory on what causes mutation to occur, only one about which mutations end up surviving and sustaining across generations. As such the evolution of human intelligence is largely an enormous chain of favorable mutations having been coupled and survived over billions of years. And each mutation that did occur was owing to nothing more than chance.
  • leg100 8y ago
    Since, as you say, we don't have a concrete theory on what causes mutations to occur, how can you then go onto say the reason they occur is nothing more than chance?
• vinn124 8y ago
  for a good introduction to order and complexity (including intelligence) arising from nothing, read "the origins of order" by stuart kauffman.