Whose desires are you chasing? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2012)
Question: What is the proof that we are still evolving?
Speaker: Who says that it is not happening anymore? That process takes millions of years. There is enough proof. If you go hundred years back, the human brain has become larger. The overall size of the body has decreased because we have moved from an agrarian society to a society that is service-based, doing far more of intellectual work than mechanical work. Do you know what is happening? Across the world, babies are being born with bigger brain and smaller body. Evolution is at work all the time. Because your life span is only eighty to hundred years, you never see that. It takes place across centuries. You never see a monkey changing into man overnight.
Listener 1: But there would be some proof.
Speaker: I just gave you the proof. Waves, vision, weight. And there are enough proofs. When Darwin came out with his ‘Origin of Species’, it was not without the proof. Evolution is not somebody’s imagination. There is enough scientific proof, lots of proof, don’t worry. Many evidences are coming day after day. Birds were initially reptiles and it was wondered that how can reptiles change to birds. Then the skeleton of a creature that was half bird-like and half-linear was discovered, and it became clear that this creature is the missing link between reptiles and birds. That. Studies of DNA are clear proofs and clear indicators of how evolution progresses.
Listener 2: Sir, what is achievement?
