One of the readers of Dr. Ian Jobling’s ezine and blog asks the following question:
- Why wouldn’t groups of humans existing in genetic isolation from each other for tens of thousands of years, in environments with wildly different climates, disease profiles, food availability levels, and degrees of reward for social cooperation, end up not only with different physical structures, but also tendencies toward different behavior patterns?
When school boards exert so much energy to defend evolution, and especially human evolution, from creationist attacks, it’s bizarre to see a crippling fear, a pervasive, superstitious taboo that homo sapiens is the sole species, or the human brain the sole organ, that is somehow magically immune to natural selection, stoutly resisting all pressures to adapt to its environment.
Does any member of the Liberal Orthodox Church care to answer? Why are all the organs of all the world’s species subject to evolution, but not the human brain? Why did the human brain stop adjusting to its environment when some tribes left Africa tens of thousands of years ago?
Thanks for posting this.