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In article <Bzrn4H.GMq@newcastle.ac.uk> w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
}darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
}
}>I was wondering, is there an evolutionary explanation for the great
}>capacities humans have to think?  I'm thinking about things like our
}>ability to do advanced mathematics, for instance.  There is no
}>evolutionary survival advantage in being able to solve differential
}>equations, for instance.  If this is the case, then *why*, in
}>evolutionary terms, can we do such things?
}
}Maybe you should rephrase the question "What are the forces which have
}pushed/pulled human intelligence up to the level where it has given
}humans the ability to do such abstract things as differential 
}equations?"

Bad example.  Catching a branch after a free-fall requires the
"unconscious" solution of a DE.  Catching a ball is a complicated
set of equations.  Now, being able to express it AS equations is recent,
but the ability to solve them isn't....