"Permanence" - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox?

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:50:15 GMT, Martin 53N 1W
wrote:

Russell Wallace wrote:
[...]

The more I think about it, the more I think this can't possibly work -
[...]

And there's way too much to know in that lot to be hardwired into the
DNA, so most of it's going to have to be learned afresh by each
[...]
Am I missing something?

Yes: The written word. External knowledge bases, and 'culture'.

Exactly: the ability to read, and learn large amounts of complex
information in part from books and other media, will be selected for.

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