THE end of the year approaches rapidly – in fact at an apparent rate proportional to your age – and people’s thoughts are turning inevitably to the Feedback Christmas competition.
The theme of this year’s competition is evolution. Readers are invited to pick a human behaviour or trait and provide their own evolutionary explanation for why it exists.
For example: Why do men get hairier as they get older?
Answer: It’s all to do with hunting. Men, as we know, evolved to chase down woolly mammoths – that’s why they are athletic and good at throwing spears. But as they aged, their physical prowess waned and they needed other adaptations to keep up with…
