Stephen Jay Gould Quote

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most things now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.


"Cardboard Darwinism", pp. 48–49 - An Urchin in the Storm (1987)


The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most things now done by our brains, and...

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most things now done by our brains, and...

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most things now done by our brains, and...

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most things now done by our brains, and...