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Even human intelligence arose through the randomness of natural selection.

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“And so natural selection sort of optimizes for organisms to converge on that same phenotype.”

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Indeed, the warrah conundrum figured prominently in the development of Darwin’s ideas on evolution by natural selection.

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However, it is still subject to purifying natural selection -- an evolutionary force that protects its genetic information by removing harmful mutations.

Others maintain that music is a cultural invention, like writing, that did not need natural selection to come into existence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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