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samruslast Friday at 6:57 AM7 repliesview on HN

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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Joker_vDlast Friday at 10:03 AM

I'd really rather liked it if that supposedly "intelligent" designer took a bit more time at designing the urogenital tract of human males.

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Miraltarlast Friday at 7:23 AM

The most successful animal by what metric?

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incognito124last Friday at 11:45 AM

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

woadwarrior01last Friday at 9:46 AM

Merely implies a very good fitness function.

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borborigmuslast Friday at 7:02 AM

So Steely Dan documented this first?

kryptisktlast Friday at 2:28 PM

You're positing the existence of a far more advanced lifeform than merely a clever monkey with pretensions, which then somehow created said monkeys. That's like saying that it's easy to become a millionaire, just start with a billion dollars.

That's not an explanation, you just replaced a problem with another harder one.

nurettinlast Friday at 12:02 PM

Intelligent mutations? How does that work?

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