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I attended a lecture today given by COL (Ret) Dr Chris Parone in which he discussed what could be considered linguistic evolution. I know it's different than this thread (for the most part) but I found the 10 page article (attached) interesting. On page 59 (of the edition of Military Review Journal), he discusses evolution from a metaphorical perspective. It's not an easy read--rather academic--but worth it the second time through.

As to the question of physical evolution, I spent 5 years getting an undergraduate Microbiology degree and after all the (pain) courses in genetics, chemistry, immunology, biology, microbiology, (etc...) I still don't know the answer to the question this thread is discussing. Over time I have formed an informed opinion (which matters not), I think we do/have physically evolved. I do not believe we come from apes. IMHO, our descendants were CREATED and then they/we EVOLVED into what we are today.