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Evolution is a result, not a method. Nothing ever evolves to do anything.

"The immune system evolved to discriminate infectious nonself from noninfectious self" http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-G

"We propose that humans have evolved to withstand energy crises by decreasing their body size" http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v64/n1/abs/pr2008135a.html

:humans evolved to modulate social behaviors like mating and parenting in response to specific environmental cues: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-3760-0...

After just few seconds of search.. So apparently some scientists didn't get the memo.

Hopefully some day you will also evolve to be less nitpicky.

Wow, is that really how you read your parent? I thought his meaning was crystal clear. Why just assume he doesn't understand evolution?

He's not wrong. He's correcting the improper use of the word. However, I would say evolution has results but is actually a process.

Yeah, evolution is definitely a cycle, but it can also be a state (mankind's current state of evolution). Maybe I could have been more clear about that.

It's an important distinction. Evolution is definitely not prescriptive of what an organism can and can't do except as a result of trial and error.

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