When being asked what separates humans from other primates, people are quick to say it is their brain. In fact, the differences can be superficial and even unimportant. Using a palm calculator, I can calculate everything a supercomputer can calculate; it would take longer time. However, an ape does not seem to be able to compose a sonnet given all
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У меня есть некоторый не слишком вдохновляющий опыт такого рода, до сих пор все грудами на балконе валяется.
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You tacitly assume that the main difference is intellect and that it is intellect that makes you human. Both of these statements are debatable.
As for the food, I am not saying that the brain developed because of AMY1 promoter mutation. I am saying that without this mutation it would be a very limited diet and perhaps no agriculture. This is an adaptation to navigate one's way across potentially edible starchy foods.
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a) already overspecialized and prosperous as they are and have no capacity for evolution in that way
b) they have no audible signaling and socialization.
And about vision I mean development of visual cortex which can recognize complex objects and "keep in mind" there properties and mutual configuration even without future visual stimulation -- basic level of imagination so to say.
And when you add to this syntactical linearity of audible signaling\speaking it will look as proto version of human mind.
With which evolution can work further
No, I stated intelligence so important because I'm interested in researching and (re)creating of intelligence.
All other differences will be discovered by the way of grows of genome databases anyway.
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