alt Hacker NewsOnly in small ways and very recently, evolutionarily speaking, were those things rewarded by natural selection (and even that has stopped nowadays).
Only in small ways and very recently, evolutionarily speaking, were those things rewarded by natural selection (and even that has stopped nowadays).
I'm not sure that's a good way to think about it.
Evolution transcends hard lines in the temporal sand that "separate species".
It also took billions of years of evolution to get to humans. so, humans, on the grander scale of life, is also just a very recent development.