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▲Human Accelerated Region 1 (en.wikipedia.org)
46 points by apollinaire 6 hours ago | 12 comments
red75prime 3 hours ago [-]
Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.
utopiah 2 hours ago [-]
What was the alternative?
red75prime 2 hours ago [-]
Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.
mapleoin 2 hours ago [-]
Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.
Nevermark 20 minutes ago [-]
Or a single magic mutation.

And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…

thesuperevil 3 hours ago [-]
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samrus 3 hours ago [-]
Implies intelligent design

I think its rather some mutations that produced more reelin and created the most successful animal in earth's history

woadwarrior01 3 minutes ago [-]
Merely implies a very good fitness function.
Miraltar 2 hours ago [-]
The most successful animal by what metric?
menno-dot-ai 2 hours ago [-]
Tetris high scores, obviously
Nevermark 19 minutes ago [-]
The most successful at communicating their view that they are the most successful. Whether they are or not. But that means they are. By that metric.

Has another animal proposed they are more successful by a different metric?

Crickets?

totomz 46 minutes ago [-]
Some of us don't spend days looking for food, don't die of cold, and survive the flu...

aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert

borborigmus 3 hours ago [-]
So Steely Dan documented this first?
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