I tend to groan at just about any use of the phrase “More Highly Evolved” as applicable to humans.
If the phrase means anything, it would mean something like “is in a line of descent that
has been through more rounds of Darwinian selection than some reference line”.
And since bacteria can reproduce in ~20 minutes, and it takes humans ~20 years, the
winner of that comparison is going to be in the former group, not the latter.
I tend to groan at just about any use of the phrase “More Highly Evolved” as applicable to humans. If the phrase means anything, it would mean something like “is in a line of descent that has been through more rounds of Darwinian selection than some reference line”. And since bacteria can reproduce in ~20 minutes, and it takes humans ~20 years, the winner of that comparison is going to be in the former group, not the latter.