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Why did humans evolve past genetic knowledge?
Animals, plants, insects, etc are all born with instinct. They need very little formal training, or in some cases, none at all to survive. (Compare that to human infants. Useless!)
Why have humans evolved past that need? I wouldn't have minded inheriting some kind of genetic manual on how to get through life.
Wouldn't you?
No more flippant questions from me! I was over generalizing a wee bit, but have to add that the most basic life forms also "know" how to breathe & secrete hormones too. I bow to the fact that we DO have more instinct than I gave us credit for, but I'm still amazed at how much every single one of us has to still "learn". Just a thought.
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- LauraLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
It is the fault of "civilization". As human civilization becomes more complicated our instincts become less valuable, and our need for education increases.
- 1 decade ago
Human infants are filled with animal instincts. ask a doctor or have a child. In fact, I have read a single medical journal that didn't have a study into human instincts. The study of behavioral science is based on Human instinct.
You must be wondering why we don't wander through the wilderness surviving on it alone. Well, that is because of our ability to learn and pass that knowledge down. Society developed, and believe it or not, our instincts to survive in this new world are what cause us to want to learn, to pick up skills, such as how to use a computer, or how to dress warmly in winter. We can learn to learn, but our initial ability to do anything, including learn, is instinctual.
If you are interested, google some of those journals and read the articles. They aren't totally filled with jargon and such, they are actually really understandable.
- Anonymous4 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
They haven't completely evolved past it but evolution weeds out things that are unnecessary for our survival. If we can survive without a trait, it may or may not be passed along. And unless it is linked to a necessary trait, eventually it will be gone.
Your appendix is a good example of what your saying. But adrenal glands are the opposite, they react without you having to actively 'think' about it. No one taught you how to breath or make your heart beat...
Also, I think as you look at the complexity of animals throughout the animal kingdom, you'll see that as they get more complex, more 'education' is necessary. Compare humans to dogs, or other primates. There are innate functions, but also quite a few that must be taught or learned (Usually dangers).
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- ?Lv 71 decade ago
With no offense, who says they did?
Humans are the most arrogant, stupid, and short-sighted of all the creatures on this planet. If you will recall, one of the gods of science, a chimp named Darwin, felt that man evolved from the apes. I will give him this, watching a drunken male try to mate with a female in a bar gives him some credit to being able to see the relationships between males and gorillas, but beyond that... Still, I persist in calling them Apes or Monkeys, mostly as an insult.
As one Answerer pointed out, human babies are able to suckle, use non-verbal ques to express hunger, pain, love, and other emotions, and so on. Just because, in your opinion, they cannot care for themselves during the first few years of life does NOT mean they are not intelligent or are useless. Kittens and pups spend many of their first hours helpless, which oddly correlates to our birth cycles. A kat spends about 9 weeks in pregnancy, and human females spend 9 months. Do the math. From birth on to a set point, every living creature is helpless to some degree. It just happens that the human educational system fosters stupidity and inability to support oneself for most of a child's life.
But, who teaches a child to mate? Does the father have to explain to his son how to have sex with a girl, or does he instinctively KNOW what to do? What about the girl? I don't recall anyone explaining to anyone that I knew how to have sex. And, well, we did pretty good. How about fighting? Most humans instinctively know how to fight and kill one another. And for you racists out there, I'm not talking about just Blacks! If anything, they are showing most whites up on their ability to organize and form basic groups to protect themselves, which is something whites seem unable to grasp. Perhaps, that is due to a learned trait, greed, but I don't know.
As for me, I did inherit a good deal. Not all of it good, either. The group I was born a part of was, at best, moronic. They were afraid of anyone who was different, and spent most of their lives in FEAR. They thought that money would buy them into the afterlife, which it did not. Seriously, most people don't know what to look for in this area, as not all of it is learned behavior.
I was told, through my 'educational' years, that I was taught everything I knew. Later in life, I put this to the test. True, I did learn a lot as I grew up. But, there was a lot more that I never had access to that I still knew. For one, I knew a language that my family spoke, 50 or more years before I was born, that they could not speak. Yet, when I was told I was wrong as a child, it was my teachers who were incorrect, not me. I also knew more than I wished to know about weapons, horses, cars, and other things, that my family were simply not able to grasp. One of these is metal working, such as silver plating using acids, that my family did not have, for one, or even understand about. The human body is another. Sorry, but one side of my family did know this, that spoke the language I knew. But, we moved to America well before he was born. Yet, his knowledge explains how I knew what I did, even if illogical.
I have also been told that genetics take years to alter. I disagree. My mother, when young, broke her finger. It was never set, by the way. Yet, when I was born, I also had the exact same break and non-set finger. This, I'm told, is impossible. Yet, I know I have that problem. I could go on, but suffice to say that I know, today, that science is not all knowing, and there are things that they have willingly overlooked. :)
- Paul HxyzLv 71 decade ago
They didn't. Babies have the instinct to suckle milk from their mother's breasts. Humans have instincts too. Sorry, but you got this one wrong.
- Move onLv 71 decade ago
You have. You simply have chosen to ignore it.
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