Did humans evolve to fill a ?cognitive niche?? « Why Evolution Is True
Darwin saw our minds, like our bodies, as resulting from the accumulation of adaptive differences through selection. Wallace, on the other hand, thought that our higher mental powers would be evolutionary overkill?faculties that were simply not needed to become human. Wallace saw these as arising instead from the intercession of ?a superior intelligence?, and so was the first exponent of ID after Darwin.
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