How good is this! No sooner do I finish spouting off about one of my favourite gripes concerning human evolution than the scientists have come to my aid!
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston discovered that most of us lead predictable lives. Who'd have guessed it!
Our travel arrangements are not very adventurous. By studying mobile phone data they found out that people rarely strayed from a six-mile radius. 70% of the time we can be found in our most visited location.
At Work? At a friends? Visiting John Terry's girlfriend's house?
They are hoping that the data will shed light on the spread of diseases. “We are all in one way or another boring,” said Albert-Lazlo Barabasi who co-wrote the study.
My point was and is that we are not very different (if at all) from our ancestors. What drives us would drive them.
Science may have some convincing evidence for the spread of human populations, but it has no answer to explain why people would up stakes from a sparsely populated and environmentally secure place and wander off to the freezing nether regions or worse.
This may be the Occam's Achilles. Seems like it to me.
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