Quotation Time. Ish
From one of the Patrick O'Brien novels. Stephen Maturin (physician, naturalist and dope-head) is musing on babies and the parents thereof. Observing a tall, handsome, well-fed and healthy father and a mother described as the beauty of the world, he wonders that they have produced such a run of the mill baby. As beauty and healthy people tend to attract, and therefore reproduce, if you used the analogy of dog or horse breeding, the 'rich' should stand twenty feet tall, while the 'poor' ran about their feet like pygmies.

Or something like that.

What I am attempting to get at, is that the old humans haven't really been evolving for some time, just adapting their environment to suit.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 13:16, Reply)