Human Accelerated Region 1(en.wikipedia.org)
49 pointsby apollinaire7 hours ago1 comment
  • red75prime4 hours ago
    Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.
    • utopiah3 hours ago
      What was the alternative?
      • red75prime3 hours ago
        Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.
        • mapleoin2 hours ago
          Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.
          • Nevermarkan hour ago
            Or a single magic mutation.

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

    • thesuperevil4 hours ago
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    • samrus4 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

      • Joker_vD34 minutes ago
        I'd really rather liked it if that supposedly "intelligent" designer took a bit more time at designing the urogenital tract of human males.
        • shmeeed28 minutes ago
          What's wrong with it?
      • Miraltar3 hours ago
        The most successful animal by what metric?
        • menno-dot-ai3 hours ago
          Tetris high scores, obviously
        • Nevermarkan hour 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?

          • pegasus12 minutes ago
            So, the most successful at arrogance? In other words, the least successful at humility? Ironically, since humble and human share a common root. Just playing devil's advocate here, but what you propose is not a good metric to maximize.
          • robbomacraean hour ago
            You sound like you’ve never been disdainfully stared at by a cat..

            Really interesting article though. I’m very hopeful AI can help work out how all these things interact.

        • totomz2 hours 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

          • tomxor26 minutes ago
            > aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert

            Agreed, it would seem that evolutionary biology peaked in the late 90s then

      • woadwarrior01an hour ago
        Merely implies a very good fitness function.
        • littlestymaar9 minutes ago
          Yes. Though according this fitness function we're not necessarily more successful than a jellyfish or a tapeworm.
      • borborigmus4 hours ago
        So Steely Dan documented this first?