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And obviously my appreciation goes out to many many more

Thanks to @Baluncore for never hesitating to give deep and thorough explanations!

Although I find the answers very informative and helpful, they don't answer the core of my question. The question was simple: how does one distinguish between common ancestry and descendants from each other. I'm not trying to speculate :(, I just want to elaborate my original question. I...

Could ardi in this case not be another relative of the descendants of the chimpanzee?

Actually this is part of the motivation for the question. From my current understanding it is sometimes debated wether fossiles are only relatives or ancestors to modern humans. I know, but while morphology seems to be more open to interpretation, DNA is far more accurate. Yet neanderthals are...

The way I framed this was a bit shallow sorry. What I mean is that there are a few parts of the Genom that are unique to individuals for example, or concerning phylogenetics unique to a species. Usually these are non functional parts of the Genom. From these indicators scientists can derive...

So I've been reading a bit about Human ancestry and Human-Chimpanzee common ancestry, and one thing that you tend to hear a lot is the notion that humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees but rather they share a common ancestor. I've read about how this common ancestor population could have been...

Are you saying that the rules that govern a Model are the models capabilities?

Wow very thorough Could one not argue also that the turing machine is "lambda-calculus complete" or something if they are equivalent according to the Church-Turing thesis? I just feel like there are underlying patterns that both might share. For example there is also "rule 110" which is a...

I see what you mean. But like aren't there certain rules, that if you take them out, it looses it's "universality". I just want to understand what's special about this set of rules compared to other ones that aren't universal.

Is the fact, that the sequence of arguments and functions matter, for lambda calculus, the reason it's universal. I thought about it because expressions like true and false depend on the idea that the order in which the arguments get substituted matters. Keep in mind that I have zero background...

Man I love this guy. He also made a video about using dessicant based air conditioner to cool a house, which I really recommend. I'll definitely look into it thank you.

Is that a rhetorical question 😄. I guess it's definitely harder.

So basically I've seen that in Persia as well as in other areas, people have been using ice pools and other means to produce ice in the desert. Specifically ice pools used the fact that deserts have low humidity, as this would mean higher evaporative cooling efficiency as well as radiative...

It has been answered by James Demers already. But thank you.