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I would hesitate to believe that crowds sitting around a bright fire at night will produce more viable offspring than those fumbling in the dark away from the l
by bregma 4y ago
I would hesitate to believe that crowds sitting around a bright fire at night will produce more viable offspring than those fumbling in the dark away from the light.
The evolutionary mechanism for selecting blue-sensitive rod cells in our retinas along with red-sensitive cone cells must surely be unrelated to the sodium emission spectrum, given that so may other mammals have similar retinas but lack fire-making skills.
- wongarsu 4y agoSurely the theory is not about sitting at the fire, but about being able to quickly transition between fire and darkness. But it might also be just a quirk of evolution, or have a completely different reason.