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Re:City Birds Are Smarter Than Rural Birds by andrewclunn on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @09:43AM (#11909260)
Before somebody starts trying to smugly draw some parallel with urban and rural humans, the finches have natural selection weeding out the weak (or in this case less intelligent). This isn't happening with people.
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Re:City Birds Are Smarter Than Rural Birds by unitedacademics on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:13AM (#11909411)
Sure. Even though humans are still shaped by natural selection, we now have to consider that we are evolving in a balance between culture and biology. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/04/natural-selection-sti... (This article has some interesting (and controversial) remarks on the role of natural selection in humans).
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