Human Accelerated Region 1

red75prime•about 7 hours ago

Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.

utopiah•about 6 hours ago

What was the alternative?

lukeify•about 2 hours ago

We didn’t have any. The project manager set it at 3 story points.

red75prime•about 6 hours ago

Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.

mapleoin•about 6 hours ago

Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.

curiousObject•about 3 hours ago

Evolution would design the alternative to be something slightly less capable than the minimum. /s

Really, the likelihood is that these mutations must have had an impact that far outweighs their space in the genome.

That’s how all our close competition got murdered by Homo Sapiens. Just significant difference in mental abilities.

samrus•about 7 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_vD•about 4 hours 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.

lexicality•about 3 hours ago

I'd like it if the vagus nerve didn't do a loop around my neck for no particular reason. (Giraffes would probably like that even more)

codeulike•about 3 hours ago

mine seems ok what version are you on

hackrmn•about 3 hours ago

Hey, $DEITY did its absolute best with the constraints and the requirements. But hey, can't please everyone apparently. Be happy you can relieve yourself well past the intended warranty period. The parts were designed to be easily _aftermarket_ replaceable with sufficient advances in technology, retaining the fundamental design without changes.

shmeeed•about 4 hours ago

What's wrong with it?

incognito124•about 2 hours ago

I fail to see that, it's simply one of all other random mutations, it's just that this one has a big downstream effect of enabling other more complex mutations

Miraltar•about 6 hours ago

The most successful animal by what metric?

menno-dot-ai•about 6 hours ago

Tetris high scores, obviously

totomz•about 5 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

Nevermark•about 4 hours 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?

woadwarrior01•about 4 hours ago

Merely implies a very good fitness function.

littlestymaar•about 3 hours ago

Yes. Though according this fitness function we're not necessarily more successful than a jellyfish or a tapeworm.

nurettin•about 2 hours ago

Intelligent mutations? How does that work?

borborigmus•about 7 hours ago

So Steely Dan documented this first?

Human Accelerated Region 1

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