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Evolution an Intelligence?
i dunno much about evolution. But i guess it doesn't involve conscious process (or does it?) i smell some sorta intelligence when organisms evolve to survive. Where this intelligence come from?
3 Answers
- 9 years ago
There's no intelligence required.
Creatures mutate randomly, because background radiation alters DNA.
99% of these mutations are either useless or harmful to the creature.
However, just occasionally, a random mutation will benefit the creature.
This creature will, with this new adaptation, be faster, or stronger, or more intelligent than its fellow creatures.
It will find more food, survive longer, breed more and so produce more offspring.
The offspring will also have the mutation.
Multiply that by a million generations and a million tiny mutations and you have evolution.
Source(s): Charles Darwin. - Deacon_227Lv 49 years ago
Evolution is not a directed activity. It is driven by changes in climate, beneficial mutations, and predator/prey relationships, to name just a few. The "intelligence" behind evolution is contained in chemical, physical and biological mechanisms. Evolution has no goal.
- 9 years ago
we are all souls and there is a universal consciousness that connects us all. evolution is the evolving of our consciousness, in a sense.
