re: #362 engineer dog

there’s an interesting idea from the very dawn of the history of homo sapiens sapiens, about something that is deduced to have happened i think about 100 thousand BC, long before our ancestors even started to leave africa and populate the rest of the earth, which happened about 60 to 40 thousand BC

it seems that there was a severe drought about that time, which according to the dna record and other deductions reduced the human population to a few thousand individuals, and came very close to wiping us out completely. a narrow bottleneck in the evolution of anatomically modern humans due to severe climate conditions

i sometimes wonder about the action of natural selection on the nature of humans from that trying time. perhaps the results on human nature and morality were not entirely good…

Even if you entertain the idea of genetic memory as I do, this particular event is way too far back to have any impact on today’s sense of ethics. However natural selection is still as impactful as ever. It’s just a bit less Nature and more nurture, or lack thereof.