[2014-09-08] Bigger asses for bigger brains

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[2014-09-08] Bigger asses for bigger brains

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Of course it's not true. People are getting smarter.
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That red button text... Did he just lie about liking big butts?

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Siquo wrote:That red button text... Did he just lie about liking big butts?
I can't speak for Zach, but I like big butts and I cannot lie.

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Wait, this makes no sense.

If this were the case, Africa and Latin America would be the cradles of science and civilization, the most advanced and richest societies on Earth! Their huge neocortices would be the envy of all, while East Asia would be a primitive backwater, whose satisfaction with small asses cost them their chance at true intelligence.

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Takos wrote:Wait, this makes no sense.
Intelligence does not make a civilisation (as much as we intellectual elitists would like to think it does).

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Siquo wrote:
Takos wrote:Wait, this makes no sense.
Intelligence does not make a civilisation (as much as we intellectual elitists would like to think it does).
This is also true. Humans are intelligent, social, and have absurd dexterity. All of these are required.
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Takos wrote:
If this were the case, Africa and Latin America would be the cradles of science and civilization, the most advanced and richest societies on Earth! Their huge neocortices would be the envy of all, while East Asia would be a primitive backwater, whose satisfaction with small asses cost them their chance at true intelligence.
Um, wait, is Egypt not in Africa?

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ReasonablyDoubtful wrote:
Siquo wrote:
Takos wrote:Wait, this makes no sense.
Intelligence does not make a civilisation (as much as we intellectual elitists would like to think it does).
This is also true. Humans are intelligent, social, and have absurd dexterity. All of these are required.
Crows have all three of these things! What about language?
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DonRetrasado wrote:Crows have all three of these things! What about language?
Caw!
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oh crap this is so embarrassing. Caw caw caw?
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DonRetrasado wrote:
ReasonablyDoubtful wrote:
Siquo wrote:Intelligence does not make a civilisation (as much as we intellectual elitists would like to think it does).
This is also true. Humans are intelligent, social, and have absurd dexterity. All of these are required.
Crows have all three of these things! What about language?
Crows have language. Heck, even chickens have language. Bees have a language based on dancing.

Language is a requirement of social environments.
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I was mostly joking around. But no, those animals do not have language, and language is not a requirement for social structures.
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For civilisation, you don't need much more than the ability to record and pass on information. Stories, writing and teaching. Am I right? That seems like the main thing.
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GUTCHUCKER wrote:For civilisation, you don't need much more than the ability to record and pass on information. Stories, writing and teaching. Am I right? That seems like the main thing.
Well, yes, but you do need a brain that can accomodate that information. We have gorillas that can speak sign language, but that doesn't help them learn differential equations, now does it?
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Gorillas can learn how to make signs and communicate, but no, they do not speak sign language. Language is a separate faculty that is (as far as we know) unique to humans because other animals cannot make novel and creative structures.
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