Brain function and evolution,why rest of our brain is non-functional?

In summary: I doubt that. They do not have hands, and water is a bad environment for metalwork.Sorry if this looks a bit premature for evolution; just can’t stop asking!
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SecretOfnumber
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Sorry if this looks a bit premature for evolution; just can’t stop asking!

Dolphins, human and Crovidaes are living in three different environments, within these three human (land inhabitant) reached the most advance brain function, although our brain could not use many of its ability based on the scientific researches.

My question if how this fits into the evolution? Why we are only using a small quantity of our mind and why we have the rest, when it was not needed for our survival based on evolution? or it was?

Second Q: suppose that human disappears and condition stays perfect for dolphins, would they be able to send rockets to the moon in a time frame in future? what will happen to this highly advanced brain?

Cheers,
 
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although our brain could not use many of its ability based on the scientific researches.
Does this come from a scientific source, or some book written for the public?
While some brains can do things normal brains cannot, this does not mean that those functions would give any evolutionary advantage.
Second Q: suppose that human disappears and condition stays perfect for dolphins, would they be able to send rockets to the moon in a time frame in future?
I doubt that. They do not have hands, and water is a bad environment for metalwork.
 
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SecretOfnumber said:
Sorry if this looks a bit premature for evolution; just can’t stop asking!

Dolphins, human and Crovidaes are living in three different environments, within these three human (land inhabitant) reached the most advance brain function, although our brain could not use many of its ability based on the scientific researches.

Humans are social animals, meaning we are able to convey ideas to each other. This perhaps developed pretty early in our history. Advanced brain function is a quirk in our history. But let us take timeline over which we have advanced technology , only last 50 to 100 yrs. Again it is a quirk or chance that we have hit upon this, nothing more.

My question if how this fits into the evolution? Why we are only using a small quantity of our mind and why we have the rest, when it was not needed for our survival based on evolution? or it was?

Do birds require wings for survival ? Do girafffes require long necks for survival? Do Bats require supersonic waves for survival?. We probably had an advantage with skill sets our brain allows, perhaps that is why we have it.
 
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How about this guys, maybe in the past we were able to use more of our brain but as time went on we lost function. Pyramids and other amazing things were done in the past and dullards attribute them to aliens. Ha ha ha. I say give us credit. Even with all the technology we posses, we still cannot figure out how they did it. The same goes for "junk" DNA.
 
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SecretOfnumber said:
My question if how this fits into the evolution? Why we are only using a small quantity of our mind and why we have the rest, when it was not needed for our survival based on evolution? or it was?
Are you basing this on that misconception that humans only use 10% of their brain? That's wrong.

You failed to provide any sources for where you got such an idea which is why you need to supply sources so we know what you have read.

Though an alluring idea, the "10 percent myth" is so wrong it is almost laughable neurologist Barry Gordon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.

"It turns out though, that we use virtually every part of the brain, and that [most of] the brain is active almost all the time," Gordon adds.

Although it's true that at any given moment all of the brain's regions are not concurrently firing, brain researchers using imaging technology have shown that, like the body's muscles, most are continually active over a 24-hour period. "Evidence would show over a day you use 100 percent of the brain," says John Henley, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Even in sleep, areas such as the frontal cortex, which controls things like higher level thinking and self-awareness, or the somatosensory areas, which help people sense their surroundings, are active, Henley explains.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=people-only-use-10-percent-of-brain
 
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SecretOfnumber said:
Sorry if this looks a bit premature for evolution; just can’t stop asking!

Dolphins, human and Crovidaes are living in three different environments, within these three human (land inhabitant) reached the most advance brain function, although our brain could not use many of its ability based on the scientific researches.

My question if how this fits into the evolution? Why we are only using a small quantity of our mind and why we have the rest, when it was not needed for our survival based on evolution? or it was?

Second Q: suppose that human disappears and condition stays perfect for dolphins, would they be able to send rockets to the moon in a time frame in future? what will happen to this highly advanced brain?

Cheers,

Yes, as Evo pointed out the 10% deal is indeed a myth. All the neurons in your nervous system need to be active and participating in network interactions all the time or else they die. This is how the brain "prunes" itself during development, those that do not become incorporated into a functional network die off. I think this myth got created through confusion with the utilization of your mental capacity or something like that, but that is very different than what a lot of people think it means, i.e. that only 10% of your brain is doing anything at any given time. I think when the myth started it was actually only 3% that you were supposed to use! That's what I remember of my first exposure to it. Nice to hear that "further study" has bumped it up to 10%. Lol.

In any case, the answer to your question is the subject of hot debate right now in cognitive neuroscience. I have my own ideas on the issue I won't bore you with, other than to say that it is also a myth that gross brain size per se, or brain/body ratios (i.e. Encephalization Quotient (EQ)) is linearly equivelant with intelligence. To put it simply, the fact that dolphins and Magpies have high EQ's as humans do does not mean that they think the way humans do. There are many structural differences among these three brains, and it is likely that an internal structural uniqueness in the human brain accounts for its specialness. That fact that dolphins and magpies do not have hands certianly doesn't help their situation, but even if they did I don't think they'd ever get it together to send rockets to the moon, as you say.

Edit: I guess you can't blame the OP for that misconception, I just remember that they used it in the movie "Limitless." The idea was the drug he took allowed him to utilize 100% of his brain up from (I'm supposing) the 10%. Funny thing is I actually loved that movie even though they botched the science. Lol.
 
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grandbeauch said:
How about this guys, maybe in the past we were able to use more of our brain but as time went on we lost function. Pyramids and other amazing things were done in the past and dullards attribute them to aliens. Ha ha ha. I say give us credit. Even with all the technology we posses, we still cannot figure out how they did it.
We are not sure which method they used to build them. There are multiple concepts how it could be done.
On the other hand, do you think the old Egyptians would have any idea how to build rockets and computers?

Anyway, this is not a matter of intelligence, it is a matter of education and existing scientific knowledge. If you could somehow get a baby of the old Egyptians and let it grow up in our time, it would be hard to notice a difference. The same goes for the other direction.
 
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No I do not believe in the 10% usage idea. I think that sometimes people have access to the part of the brain that the masses do not use like Einstein or Plato ect. If you have noticed, lately there are not as many GREAT thinkers as there was in the past or great anything like in the past dear mentor person.
That is a fact and historic proof of what I am getting at.You have to admit that for being so so advanced we still stand in aw of what was accomplished by the ancients. Given that they did not know as much about medicine or current knowledge that we've gained off of developing their discoveries, we are not all that intelligent. We just have better toys and have had more time to develop what they started.
I am not arrogant or thinking I am great but I can see what is in front of my face. Only losers attribute past accomplishments to persons other than humans. If you are an EVO head which I think you are, why have not we developed even farther than we are. In the last 5000-6000 years we have gone from under humans to where we are now. Why only just now and why can't we readily imitate our ancestors with what they had available if as evolutionists posit, we should be past that stage of development.
 
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grandbeauch said:
I am not arrogant or thinking I am great but I can see what is in front of my face. Only losers attribute past accomplishments to persons other than humans. If you are an EVO head which I think you are, why have not we developed even farther than we are. In the last 5000-6000 years we have gone from under humans to where we are now. Why only just now and why can't we readily imitate our ancestors with what they had available if as evolutionists posit, we should be past that stage of development.

I don't know what are you trying to prove here ? And what is a EVO head ? What do you mean by " we have not developed even farther" ?

Why is it so hard for you grasp that, yes people in the past did some incredible feats of engineering , But people now are also doing incredible feats of engineering, its just human history.

Besides what has human technological advancement got to do with biological evolution ? you are confusing one with the other.
 
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In the past, there was less existing knowledge and there were fewer scientists - it was easier to find something new, and it was easier to stand out.
That is a fact and historic proof of what I am getting at.
It is not.

Today, the scale for scientists [in particle physics or cosmology, for example] is not to reach Einstein - you have to go beyond that, and find something Einstein did not.

why have not we developed even farther than we are
If we would have started the same development 1000 years earlier, the question would have come up 1000 years earlier. With the same result. Developments need time - but the speed of innovation is increasing quickly.
 
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Use 10% of the brain I thought refereed to the "conscious activity" compared to total activity.
 
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grandbeauch said:
No I do not believe in the 10% usage idea. I think that sometimes people have access to the part of the brain that the masses do not use like Einstein or Plato ect. If you have noticed, lately there are not as many GREAT thinkers as there was in the past or great anything like in the past dear mentor person.
That is a fact and historic proof of what I am getting at.You have to admit that for being so so advanced we still stand in aw of what was accomplished by the ancients. Given that they did not know as much about medicine or current knowledge that we've gained off of developing their discoveries, we are not all that intelligent. We just have better toys and have had more time to develop what they started.
I am not arrogant or thinking I am great but I can see what is in front of my face. Only losers attribute past accomplishments to persons other than humans. If you are an EVO head which I think you are, why have not we developed even farther than we are. In the last 5000-6000 years we have gone from under humans to where we are now. Why only just now and why can't we readily imitate our ancestors with what they had available if as evolutionists posit, we should be past that stage of development.
You appear to have a grave misunderstanding of how evolution works.

Also, a huge mistake that people make when talking about things made in the past is thinking about it with the concerns and constraints of modern society. These things were built with little or no concern for the life and safety of the people that were forced to do the labor. They didn't have government committees that had safety rules for laborers. Most laborers were slaves and conscripts. Or they could be laboring as a community for a purpose, religious or otherwise. People were routinely killed and maimed doing back breaking labor, sometimes for generations to create these "wonders". It's amazing what can be done with enough manpower over enough time if safety isn't a concern.
 
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The 10% thing was debunked a while ago, as well as the size of brain. On the show "Dark Matters" There was a guy who dissected Einstein's brain and later they found his brain had more glial cells and thereby implied more connections was correlated with intelligence, which makes sense.
 
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mazinse said:
The 10% thing was debunked a while ago, as well as the size of brain. On the show "Dark Matters" There was a guy who dissected Einstein's brain and later they found his brain had more glial cells and thereby implied more connections was correlated with intelligence, which makes sense.
It is quite adventurous to conclude that from a single brain.
 
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... Why we are only using a small quantity of our mind and why we have the rest, when it was not needed for our survival based on evolution? or it was?
Tell me again, when did you stop beating your wife? My question is like yours because both assumes a fact that likely is not true, so you can't answer.

My opinion. We DO use all of our brain, it's just that we don't know what we use it for. It is like all that DNA we don't use. Yes we do. I'd bet anyone $100 that if I were to remove the brain parts or the DNA you don't use you'd be dead. It is used or as you said evolution would have eliminated it.

Second Q: suppose that human disappears and condition stays perfect for dolphins, would they be able to send rockets to the moon in a time frame in future? what will happen to this highly advanced brain?

So you ask "Is our level of intelligence inevitable?". Well, for 200 million years before humans there were no reptiles going to the moon. Then 6M years ago there were many pre-human lines and only one survived. We homos had a poor record until recently (100K years?) when one small band of them took off.

I think in the universe we will find that life is common but technology is unbelievably rare, maybe just one example.
 
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grandbeauch said:
How about this guys, maybe in the past we were able to use more of our brain but as time went on we lost function. Pyramids and other amazing things were done in the past.

The reason we think more stuff was done in the past than now is simply because the "past" is a larger span of years then the "present". If the present is only the last 50, 100 or 500 years that is short compared to the last 6,000 years.

Same applies to music. Why is the radio always filled with "junk" from people with no talent but in the past there was always good music? Because we can pick and choose what to remember from the past and forget the junk. The present is in your faces and we can't ignore it. It is the same with non-music and going back 6,000 years.
 
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ChrisJA said:
I think in the universe we will find that life is common but technology is unbelievably rare, maybe just one example.
sun 4.57b yrs

Earth (with life) 3.6b yrs
Earth (with humans) 200,000 yrs
Look at Timeline of evolutionary history of life

I think advanced life like humans, is more of a build it and they will come thing, evidently the comparative advantage of intelligence* & dexterity wins, evolution itself forced this result.

*a really loaded word i know. Here it includes communication/writing ect, the jist of it is brains and hands are tough evolutionary advantages to beat

in other words, if it's an environment like Earth, the evolution towards a techy civilization is merely a matter of time, idealizing a situation similar to Earth.

I'd be interested to know how the type of energy from the sun effects life, specifically if our sun is the perfect size & composition, leaving distance from the sun as a variable.
 
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nitsuj said:
sun 4.57b yrs

Earth (with life) 3.6b yrs
Earth (with humans) 200,000 yrs
Look at Timeline of evolutionary history of life

I think advanced life like humans, is more of a build it and they will come thing, evidently the comparative advantage of intelligence* & dexterity wins, evolution itself forced this result.

*a really loaded word i know. Here it includes communication/writing ect, the jist of it is brains and hands are tough evolutionary advantages to beat

in other words, if it's an environment like Earth, the evolution towards a techy civilization is merely a matter of time, idealizing a situation similar to Earth.

I'd be interested to know how the type of energy from the sun effects life, specifically if our sun is the perfect size & composition, leaving distance from the sun as a variable.

You could be right. W don't have good statistics yet with a sample size of only one.But,...

Why did it not evolve faster? Why didn't reptiles build iPhones 100 million years ago? Or why did early hominids take 6 million years to develop.

Why is the galaxy not crowded with space ships? It should be. Assume every intelligent civilization eventually discovers space travel. In 1,000 years we might be able to travel at 1/10th the speed of light with only that technology we could colonize the galaxy in under a million years. If human like life is common the galaxy should have already been colonized millions of years ago.

One Earth life happened almost as soon as it was physically possible but why was our ecological niche when empty for billions for years. Intelligence is likely very rare or even unique
 
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nitsuj said:
in other words, if it's an environment like Earth, the evolution towards a techy civilization is merely a matter of time, idealizing a situation similar to Earth.
Don't make the mistake of confusing evolution with technical advancement. Technological discoveries do not require nor are they dependent on human evolution.

I'd be interested to know how the type of energy from the sun effects life, specifically if our sun is the perfect size & composition, leaving distance from the sun as a variable.
You'll need to ask a specific question.
 
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nitsuj said:
Earth (with life) 3.6b yrs
Earth (with humans) 200,000 yrs

If Earth is typical and we looked at Earth at some ramdom point on history we'd have a 200,000 in 3,600,000,000 chance of finding a human. (about 1 in 18,000)

This is exactly what I wrote abouve that live is common but humans are a 1 in 18,000 rare case.

Actually I was unfair and assumed humans would only be here for 200K years. We might last longer. So let's say we are the rare 1 in 10,000 case. and in the other 9,000+ cases you only see microbes
 
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ChrisJA said:
Why did it not evolve faster? Why didn't reptiles build iPhones 100 million years ago? Or why did early hominids take 6 million years to develop.

Chris, your questions are a bit scattered and incoherent, and where are you coming up with those goofy figures? Let me try to simplifiy things. The central question all your questions are buzzing around is this, "Where did human intelligence (symbolic thought) come from and why is it restricted to just humans." Forget about reptiles--there are several million animal species on the planet and only one of them can build iphones. The question of why didn't we evolve intelligence faster can only be addressed if we have a model as to how intelligence was created in humans in the first place. Asking why something you don't know anything about didn't behave in a different manner is an unanswerable, moot question, so why even ask it?

If Earth is typical and we looked at Earth at some ramdom point on history we'd have a 200,000 in 3,600,000,000 chance of finding a human. (about 1 in 18,000)

This is exactly what I wrote abouve that live is common but humans are a 1 in 18,000 rare case.

Actually I was unfair and assumed humans would only be here for 200K years. We might last longer. So let's say we are the rare 1 in 10,000 case. and in the other 9,000+ cases you only see microbes

OMG, Chris, you're killing me. Where did you get those figures:eek:
 
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Evo said:
Don't make the mistake of confusing evolution with technical advancement. Technological discoveries do not require nor are they dependent on human evolution.

I hear you Evo, when I say Human I'm referring to the comparative advantages we have over ALL other species here. The ones that lead to technology. Some primates use technology, which is past from generation to generation via the same means we use, communication / education / imitation. We happen to improve our tools, luckily, 'cause eating bugs off a stick for a treat just seems.

So technology is not dependent on human evolution as you said, but it is in itself an evolution. I indirectly mentioned this by bringing up the comparative advantage we have over all other species. The comparative advantage that leads to technology.

I am also assuming evolution to our level is "normal course".
 
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DiracPool said:
Chris, your questions are a bit scattered and incoherent, and where are you coming up with those goofy figures? Let me try to simplifiy things. The central question all your questions are buzzing around is this, "Where did human intelligence (symbolic thought) come from and why is it restricted to just humans." Forget about reptiles--there are several million animal species on the planet and only one of them can build iphones. The question of why didn't we evolve intelligence faster can only be addressed if we have a model as to how intelligence was created in humans in the first place. Asking why something you don't know anything about didn't behave in a different manner is an unanswerable, moot question, so why even ask it?



OMG, Chris, you're killing me. Where did you get those figures:eek:

They were posted here in this thread. life existed 3.6 billion hers, humans existed 200 thousand years. So life has included humans for a fraction of 200,000/3,600,000,000 = 0.000055 of the time.

Lets assume little green men were looking for humans and sample Earth at some random time. Let's say one group of them look at Earth every million years. At each sample they have only a 1 in about 10,000 chance of finding humans on Earth and a 1 in 1 chance of finding life. It is nearly certain they would see life and unlikely they would have found us.

Now turn this around and assume we are the little green men looking at Earth-like planets. All we can assume is that we will have a 1 in 1 chance of finding life and 1 in 10,000 chance of finding those green men. (This assumes Earth is typical. We don't know if it is)

Reptiles? yes that is relevant. Why were there no talking reptiles? Only taking mammals. The answer will tell you something. Those who say human-like intelligence is inevitable have to explain why it took so long to evolve. My argument is that it is NOT inevitable and only can about because of very rare and unusual conditions.
 
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ChrisJA said:
They were posted here in this thread.

I pulled them from Wiki
 
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ChrisJA said:
They were posted here in this thread. life existed 3.6 billion hers, humans existed 200 thousand years. So life has included humans for a fraction of 200,000/3,600,000,000 = 0.000055 of the time.

OK, those figures appear accurate, good so far...

Lets assume little green men were looking for humans and sample Earth at some random time. Let's say one group of them look at Earth every million years. At each sample they have only a 1 in about 10,000 chance of finding humans on Earth and a 1 in 1 chance of finding life. It is nearly certain they would see life and unlikely they would have found us.

OK, I didn't do the math on that, but I'll take your word for it. I get the idea...

Now turn this around and assume we are the little green men looking at Earth-like planets. All we can assume is that we will have a 1 in 1 chance of finding life and 1 in 10,000 chance of finding those green men. (This assumes Earth is typical. We don't know if it is)

OK, here's the problem. We DO know that the Earth is NOT typical, at least locally. From what we know so far from nascent exoplanet studies, the Earth is anything but typical. So, until we find even a single Earth-like planet, your argument is going to stall. And it seems as though your models and the figures you use assume that all these "typical" Earth-like planets have the same "typical" time range of
biological-evolutionary development, which is simply not going to be the case. So your calculations in this case are unrealistic, even given extreme leeway.

Reptiles? yes that is relevant. Why were there no talking reptiles? Only taking mammals. The answer will tell you something. Those who say human-like intelligence is inevitable have to explain why it took so long to evolve. My argument is that it is NOT inevitable and only can about because of very rare and unusual conditions.

Why reptiles? Why weren't there any talking frogs or "signing" salamanders? It evolved in humans because the conditions were right for it to do so, and they weren't right for the frogs and salamanders, and yes, even the reptiles. Why did it take so long? Idk, how long is it supposed to take? 10 minutes? 10 years? It takes what it takes. You can't rush perfection:tongue:

And human-like intelligence was not inevitable, by any means. This is a teleological concept which is scientifically unsound.

I'll leave you on a positive note, though, I do agree with your statement that, "(Human intelligence) it is NOT inevitable and only can about because of very rare and unusual conditions."
 
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DiracPool said:
OK, those figures appear accurate, good so far...
OK, I didn't do the math on that, but I'll take your word for it. I get the idea...
OK, here's the problem. We DO know that the Earth is NOT typical, at least locally. From what we know so far from nascent exoplanet studies, the Earth is anything but typical. So, until we find even a single Earth-like planet, your argument is going to stall. And it seems as though your models and the figures you use assume that all these "typical" Earth-like planets have the same "typical" time range of
biological-evolutionary development, which is simply not going to be the case. So your calculations in this case are unrealistic, even given extreme leeway.
Why reptiles? Why weren't there any talking frogs or "signing" salamanders? It evolved in humans because the conditions were right for it to do so, and they weren't right for the frogs and salamanders, and yes, even the reptiles. Why did it take so long? Idk, how long is it supposed to take? 10 minutes? 10 years? It takes what it takes. You can't rush perfection:tongue:

And human-like intelligence was not inevitable, by any means. This is a teleological concept which is scientifically unsound.

I'll leave you on a positive note, though, I do agree with your statement that, "(Human intelligence) it is NOT inevitable and only can about because of very rare and unusual conditions."

I see what you are saying, however evolution is not some random process in summation. The environment is. I would argue that the environment is what guides evolution to a specific & "perfect" complication / species what have you.

Keeps those genetic mutations between the ditches so to speak.

I understand Evo's point better now. A clear example is how culture effects technological advancement. Some people/cultures still live day to day using comparatively very very simple tools.

"(Human intelligence) it is NOT inevitable and only [came] about because of very rare and unusual conditions."


Of course it's not inevitable and only came about because of a conducive environment, however rare "locally".

From a little green men visiting us perspective, I believe SR puts a lid on that possibility.
 
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nitsuj said:
Keeps those genetic mutations between the ditches so to speak.

What?! I don't understand that statement at all.

I see what you are saying, however evolution is not some random process in summation. The environment is. I would argue that the environment is what guides evolution to a specific & "perfect" complication / species what have you.

With the exception of perhaps brief visits to rock quarries and sandy deserts, the environment that produced humans was a biological one, i.e. forests, jungles, etc. Recall that plants evolve too, so to say that the evolution of the environment was "random" relative to human evolution is simply wrong. Both plants and animals have DNA, and both species co-evolve with one another.
 
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DiracPool said:
What?! I don't understand that statement at all.



With the exception of perhaps brief visits to rock quarries and sandy deserts, the environment that produced humans was a biological one, i.e. forests, jungles, etc. Recall that plants evolve too, so to say that the evolution of the environment was "random" relative to human evolution is simply wrong. Both plants and animals have DNA, and both species co-evolve with one another.

1.) yup was a vague statement, but clear enough imo.

2.) we are not using the term environment the same here. The moon has an environment, Mars has an environment. I should have been more specific and said Geophysical Environment. You are thinking of Biophysical environment. To your point we are discussing living things and the environment they live in.

"Recall that plants evolve too, so to say that the evolution of the environment was "random" relative to human evolution is simply wrong."

Recall that environment is defined as 1
: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded

I should not have implied the development of the Earth was a random process, similar to genetic mutations. Finding a planet similar to Earth is random.
 
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1. What is the purpose of the non-functional parts of our brain?

The non-functional parts of our brain, also known as the vestigial structures, do not serve a specific purpose in our current evolutionary state. They are remnants of structures that were once functional in our evolutionary ancestors, but have become obsolete over time.

2. Can these non-functional parts of our brain ever become functional again?

It is highly unlikely that the non-functional parts of our brain will become functional again. Evolution works through natural selection, and if these structures were not advantageous for survival, they would not have been maintained through generations. However, it is possible for new structures to evolve and serve similar functions in the future.

3. How do scientists study the evolution of brain function?

Scientists use various methods to study the evolution of brain function. These include comparing brain anatomy and function across different species, studying fossils and their brain structures, and conducting experiments on living organisms to understand how their brains function and evolve.

4. Is the human brain the most evolved brain?

It is difficult to say definitively whether the human brain is the most evolved brain. Each species' brain has evolved to suit its specific needs and environment. While the human brain is highly complex and advanced in certain areas, other species may have evolved unique brain structures and functions that we do not possess.

5. Does the size of our brain determine our intelligence?

No, the size of our brain does not solely determine our intelligence. While a larger brain may have the capacity for more complex thought processes, it is also important to consider the structure and function of the brain. Some animals with smaller brains have been known to exhibit high levels of intelligence, emphasizing that brain size is not the only factor in determining intelligence.

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