“Humans can intelligently adapt to radically new problems in the urban jungle or outer space for which evolution could not have prepared them.”
This here trips my ‘then what did?’ sensors. I understand the intent, but evolution -did- prepare us, by giving us general intelligence. Perhaps you meant that evolution did not -specifically- adapt us to those challenges?
“Humans can intelligently adapt to radically new problems in the urban jungle or outer space for which evolution could not have prepared them.”
This here trips my ‘then what did?’ sensors. I understand the intent, but evolution -did- prepare us, by giving us general intelligence. Perhaps you meant that evolution did not -specifically- adapt us to those challenges?