The Principle of Mediocrity

The principle of mediocrity contains a similar misconception. Human attributes evolved under natural selection in an ancestral environment. That is why our senses are adap edto detecting things like the colours and smell of fruit, or the sound of a preditor. But evolution did not waste our resources on detecting phenomena that were never relevant to our survival. We cannot distinguish between the colours of most stars with the naked eye. Our ight vision is too poor and monochromatic because not enough of our ancestors died of that limitation to create evolutionary pressure for anything better. Most phenomena in the universe happen to be far above or below those scales. And yet we know that if you break down the cell walls