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> Our brains evolved to what they are today long before reading was a thing.

You could be on a poster for "evolution stops at the neck".

Obviously, our brains did not evolve to what they are today long before reading was a thing, because that happened before today. There was no point at which brains stopped evolving.



>> There was no point at which brains stopped evolving.

Evolution operates on a different timescale. For all intents and purposes, our physical structure hasn't evolved since reading became widespread in the population perhaps a couple hundred years ago.



Charitably, reading was not "widespread in the population" at that time. sandworm101's comment shows a pretty appalling understanding of evolution -- the selective pressure for reading ability exists as soon as anyone can benefit from learning to read, not when everyone is required to try -- but a somewhat better understanding of history.

Very high literacy rates within endogamous subpopulations go back much farther than a couple hundred years, though.




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