Sandy at Discovering Biology in a Digital World responded to my post about skin color with White People are Mutants. This is an interesting juxtposition with a observation that some might claim that this implies that one is saying white people are more evolved. But it's more complex than that, as I point out, it seems that before our species evolved dark skin, we were white skinned, underneath our fur, so white people are "back to the future." Does that mean they are primitive? Or evolved back to primitivity? Obviously not, these sort of categories, "more evolved," or "advanced," are really not appropriate in a grand evolutionary scheme.
Evolution just is
, the only thing it ascends is an abstract, idealized and unreal fitness landscape. A reification which I tend to feel is worthwhile in modelling, but needs to be treated cautiously in the real world where one moment you ...
