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> humans' physical evolution is vastly dominated by their cultural/technological/societal evolution Statements like these only make sense in a narrow context.
by thotsBgone 6y ago
> humans' physical evolution is vastly dominated by their cultural/technological/societal evolution
Statements like these only make sense in a narrow context. Unless you're suggesting a dog raised like a human would act more like a human than a dog.
- gibolt 6y agoThe context used within a single species seems like a reasonable application
- Iolaum 6y agoThere have some rare extreme been cases where children lived with wild animals in forests and indeed they resembled their social behaviours. (Don't recall sources to include :( )
- astrange 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child Some of these stories are doubtful and obviously none of them are all that scientific… for one thing why are all the reports from Russia?
- sebmellen 6y agoThe story of Victor of Aveyron has substantial evidence behind it. There are certainly very few feral children, but they do exist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron
- astrange 6y agoThat's believable, but it can't teach us much because it's not an intervention study, which obviously you can't do… > According to Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard, Victor was a normal child at birth[citation needed] but was neglected by his alcoholic parents from an early age. Hmm. Did they know about fetal alcohol syndrome then? It's suggested he was autistic, which would've been true at birth.
- sebmellen 6y agoThat's true. Unfortunately real cases are few and far between, so they're hard to study in any sort of methodic way. Plus, as time goes on and society becomes more pervasive, these cases will get progressively rarer. I think FASD is a good guess.