QUOTE=Graybeard;35662]
Missed ABC program (#$%&*$+*$@!!!)
Our genes have certainly not changed.
Yes they have in many ways - we have built up immune systems for a start and the human brain size (cerebral cortex) of homo sapien sapien reached its current capacity size approx 10,000 years ago. (I'll check this though).
I had never spelt it backwards before !!
It is also interesting to note the other tree in Eden (which they could eat from) was "THE TREE OF LIFE"???
I am wary of the word 'choose' here.
Judeo/ Christian/Muslim religions are not short of customers.
Lets say this mutation...
Too speculative for an answer. You are basically saying it proved pragmatic to be nice.
...and so pass on 'compassionate' genes.
Genes actually don't have a personality. Compassion is a feeling/emotion an extension of basic instinctive emotion of SADDNESS. Intellect then thinks of possitive ways to respond....thus compassionate actions.
... We are all related to these 'Adams'.
I know!