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Evolution is not teleological. Your question is meaningless.

• geuis 17y ago
  Granted and point taken. "Evolved" is a subjective term in this context because no complex system ever "evolves" towards a goal, but rather the system changes over time due to the variations of the next generation that survive their current environmental variables. There is still an interesting point to the article that speaks to how our current forms have been adapting over the last 10k years or so to agricultural civilization. We have experienced body and gene expression changes that allow us to better survive in our self-created environments, but we still have the legacy of our pre-agricultural survival adaptations that persist. The 4 impacted wisdom teeth in my head support that argument.
  • Scriptor 17y ago
    It should be noted that wisdom teeth are generally thought to have been used to chew on tough vegetation, and therefore has little to do with the high meat diet this article tells us we used to have.