Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
Dogs probably diverged from wolves around 30.000 years ago when humans started domesticating them. Dog breeds certainly exhibit large variations in appearance, behaviour and intelligence. But dogs have been artificially selected for it, and have much shorter reproduction cycles than humans.

So while I'm admittedly not an expert on the subject or even a well-read layman, 50.000 years does seem like a short time in human evolution.

Skin color, hair and such are all superficial characteristics fit for clearly identifyable environmental conditions; like sun expousre. Conversely, what would be the environmental condition that encourages or discourages intelligence for humans? Dit European cavemen spend a lot of time solving sudoku puzzles?

First wave out of Africa was some 120.000 years ago... Second wave was some 80.000 years ago. I think only second wave was successful, but we might have some overlap IIRC.

In 30.000 years we got wolves to range from Chihuahuas to St. Bernard.

You don't believe that we in 80.000 years might see some mental differences among us?

Again, laughable.