Read this interesting theory (can’t recall where) that all “savannah” adaptation theories are bs because geologically, east Africa wasn’t a savannah of the sort it is today during much of human evolutionary history 🤔
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The real question: are theories about evolutionary adaptation driving evolutionary adaptation?
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It's the same problem as paleo diets. Until you have quantification of how rapidly something changed, what counts as the relevant period of adaptation?
To say that we like this art because "we evolved on savannah" is a claim about how rapidly the "sense of beauty" changes...


