Reg the Fronkey Farmer

jakelafort wrote:
This theory suggests that during human evolution, we may have lost some ancestral short-term or working memory skills to make room in the brain for other, more complex functions, such as advanced language abilities, symbolic representation, and hierarchical thinking.

Surely we grew bigger and more complex brains throughout our…[Read more]

Thanks Enco,

Just yesterday i burst out in Lance Link. I aint kiddin ya man. I do that. Just shit comes out with no known or apparent trigger/nexus. I was taken with Lance Link as a wee lad. Had a client named Lance and i referred to him as Lance Link, secret chimp. Never to his face of course…

Cool vids.

Those chimps look extraordinarily quick. If university students can be trained or can practice to outperform the chimps that is not a fair test, is it? Wouldn’t it have to be same age adjusted for life span? And what is that guy doing isolating a baby chimp from its mother? I think it has been known for far longer than his…[Read more]

Chimptastic.

Yes, studies have shown that chimpanzees can beat adult humans in specific cognitive tests, particularly those measuring working memory and rapid visual assessment. This finding challenges the assumption that humans are superior in all cognitive functions.
Key Study Details
The most famous research, led by Professor Tetsuro…[Read more]

@jakelafort – yes, Jane Goodall totally opened up the field of primatology, changing a great ape from a “what” to a “who”.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Only a small difference in DNA, but what a difference a DNA makes.

Apparently, it’s all because of our “harsh and risky foraging niche”.  The great apes live in forests where food is easy to come by.  Humans were forced to share and cooperate as soon as their forests died back and they were forced onto the savannah.  Gr…[Read more]

I asked AI “in the shadow of man synopsis of book in terms of great apes relation to man?

“In the Shadow of Man chronicles Jane Goodall’s early research and demonstrates the close relationship between humans and chimpanzees by revealing their complex social lives, emotional depth, and intelligence, which challenged the prevailing view of humans…[Read more]

Simon,

You’ve found a creationist meme. How cool.

jakelafort wrote:
Oh and i should adduce cuz what the deuce that Goodall herself was a theist.

Link Stink.

This should be the article i intended.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-874472

I am glad humans learn. Too bad it was not on the level of a chimp. Eu continues to fund PA says this article in spite of refusing to alter the curriculum. Yea shit is gonna change in Gaza/West Bank real quick with the most vile indoctrination imaginable. Read it. It aint long.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism

Enco,

What is the difference between a humman and a chimp?

One wants to free Palestine and the other wants to free a banana. One is monkey see, monkey do. The other is Monkey hear, monkey believe. One sticks his tool in an ant mound and comes up with ants. The other sticks his tool some other place and comes up with crabs.

Yeah there is…[Read more]

Oh and i should adduce cuz what the deuce that Goodall herself was a theist. I was disappointed to learn of her blind spot. But there it was. And the leak on her head was a reference to Leakey. Not saying Richard Leakey had a big giant prostate and no matter how much he shook the last dribble ended up in his…

That was not autobiographical. Ok…[Read more]

Lets call it group-think. Come on man.

Are scientists as vulnerable to that oh so human attribute? Probably not but it aint exactly inexistent.

The thing has never left me is how i would sit there in elementary school through some boring classes on how we homo sapiens were unique in the animal kingdom. Yeah BS i thought. We aint giving other…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Scientists can and do cling to pet theories.

Admitting error is the ideal but defending one’s career is the reality. The embarrassment cost is tiny, but the career costs can be enormous.

There have been scientists who continue to push false and even harmful theories even after they’ve been completely discredited, s…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Groupthink in science isn’t a problem; it’s a myth.

From my experience, if you want to convince a scientist of new ideas, they are often willing to listen, as long as you come with a convincing argument.  I find this is very different from politics or religion.

The enemy is where someone doesn’t like to admit they…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
This story prompts more questions than answers.

I would start with the primary causes and facts, first.

The “R nought” factor for measles is estimated to be between 12 and 18, meaning on average in a fully susceptible population, an infected person will infect 12 to 18 other people. This leads to an estimate that a…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!