How humans became smart: Selection for bigger brains | Richard Wrangham and Lex Fridman
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Publicado 2021-10-11
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Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior.
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Todos los comentarios (8)
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"Big brain time" -Evolution
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i lvove lex topics he talks about
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Wish I had something witty to say. looking forward to watching the full vid
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Fantastic content Lex!!
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I personally like to think that the stoned ape hypothesis discussed by Paul Stamets and Joe Rogan may have good merit in being one of the contributing factors to the early development of higher consciousness.
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Return to monke
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Two points that come to mind. If you really look at animals, you see that while they can display very complex behaviors, they are nonetheless, absolutely stupid. They can only react to a thing that is right in front of them, and they will make no connections or extrapolations, no matter how obvious. Humans have taken a giant leap to another kind of cognition that just doesn't show up in any other animal. Secondly, evolution, while not strictly random, is a chaotic and undirected process, so while you can concoct reasons for things to happen, after the fact, those things that do happen are not predictable or necessarily reasonable.
