Evolution means not having to sleep outside

Wednesday, 20th August 2008

Erm, no, not quite Stephen, not quite.

Evolution does indeed mean many things to us human beings: bipedality, opposable thumbs, menstruation rather than oestrus, my distressing habit of gaining weight on a rich diet, many things indeed.

But not having to sleep outside is a result of something rather different: civilisation.

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