I have been thinking, a while ago I stumbled on a thing about how humans can recognize words even if the word is misspelled so long as the first and last letters are correct. I can’t remember what it was called or what the website was but I found it interesting, which led me to think of something else about it.
I am not a scientist and I don’t really know how evolution works fully, but couldn’t this be some kind of sign of evolution, I mean it is a very minor thing so I don’t think it would necessarily take millions of years for a species to evolve something relatively simple like this, its not like evolving wings or gills or something as drastic as that, it might only take a couple of thousand years for this. I don’t know, it was only a thought, I don’t think prehistoric man would have been created or evolved from monkeys with the ability to understand words which aren’t spelled correctly, for all we know, when languages and writing was created, if you made a spelling mistake then no one could understand what you had written. This could also apply to other small things humans can do instinctively.
Bah, I don’t know, it was just a thought I might be wrong.
i think that this is actually happens simply because when a person looks at a word they see and recognize it as one whole thing rather than spending the time to read it left to right (that is if they know the word and it is not new to their vocabulary). i would assume that this is not a relatively new thing in humans because if it was a recent evolutionary characteristic there would be a reason that people who could not do it would die off or be unable to reproduce. I cant see any reason that would happen.