If Humans have been smoking since the stone age
then why have'nt we evolved to be able to smoke without getting lung cancer????
2006-06-20 08:09:21 · 6 answers · asked by mizike 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
How do you know humans have been smoking since the stone age? Evolution is a funny thing -- we aren't able to predict the route that mutations will take (and evolution is based on mutation) so we just have to deal with what comes along. We haven't been able to evolve to avoid ANY illnesses, or plagues. The only reason we are able to survive today is because for some of them, we have been able to find antidotes, preventatives (immunization) or cures. But that has nothing to do with evolution.
2006-06-24 08:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by old lady 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
We haven't evolved to be able to fall off a cliff and not break a leg, either. Some things evolve, some don't. Any time you put heated garbage in your lungs you are going to suffer.
2006-06-21 10:12:04 · answer #2 · answered by Stuart King 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause idiot people think everything from hemorrhoids to to head aches are caused by smoking
2006-06-20 15:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by Ms Scarlet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we didn't discover tobacco until the indians gave to the europeans.
2006-06-20 16:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Maria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution dosen't work that fast.
2006-06-20 15:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by vampire_ryooshi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then how come they couldnt make fire
2006-06-20 15:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by mike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋