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red75primelast Friday at 6:39 AM7 repliesview on HN

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


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timdiggermlast Friday at 1:03 PM

What did you think it was before you read this brief Wikipedia article?

graemeplast Friday at 1:33 PM

Of course it is, and you could say the same with regard to mammalian brains in general. However the divergence starts very early in development (seven weeks) so is very big and very significant. By the time a human is born the brain is very different from a monkey's.

utopiahlast Friday at 7:22 AM

What was the alternative?

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xatttlast Friday at 1:04 PM

There has to be a car analogy for this.

tclancylast Friday at 12:59 PM

Which is why we think we're the center of the universe.

thesuperevillast Friday at 6:44 AM

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samruslast Friday at 6:57 AM

Implies intelligent design

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

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