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Still, you lack that one crucial fact... why evolution alters us correctly... how it does it.... how it manages to do it so quickly.
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Because the advantageously mutated survive while the weak die.
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going via the gene idea, then that would mean as animals breed they gain better versions of themselves with each passing generation, and while that can loosely be proven nowadays, there is one problem, humans themselves have become odd, and we tend to mate with that which is akin to us. Smarts to smarts, strong to strong, beauty to beauty, thin to thin, etc.
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Selection of mate criteria, animals in the wild possess selection criteria, usually the strongest in the attractive traits mate. Same is true for humans.
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In the past we would have just mated with whoever we saw, and, usually, whoever was strong enough to show off theirselves to the womenfolk. This means that we would have gained physical strength, but not mental strength, and yet we still did, and there is no explanation as to why.
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Steadily the more intelligent human survived over the stupid, Neanderthal versus CroMagnon. The CroMagnon's wiped out the Neanderthal because they were smarter, and used tools, and used simple machines like the Wheel and the Incline Plane.
~~If you are a violently militant feminist you perhaps shouldn't read any further.~~
If you look at the world today where women are objectified, and regularly selected by physical beauty, the same was likely true in the past. But the only difference was that the dominant males probably had to be smarter to survive and breed. So you have a smart but ugly male with a dumb but beautiful female, the resulting child would likely be smart and attractive to some degree. Over time this intelligence has passed on to become mainstream, and while some may be smarter than others, some are more beautiful.