Comments on: The Smart Ones https://blog.speculist.com/humanity/the-smart-ones.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: DCWhatthe https://blog.speculist.com/humanity/the-smart-ones.html#comment-5093 DCWhatthe Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:51:34 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2042#comment-5093 ..Just like the old saying: “It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it to create a massively complicated neural network capable of planning and independent thought”.

Yep, that’s what I always say…

Ah, I love technology. Not only because we have advanced knowledge available to us, at our fingertips. But because we have exposure to many more smartass comments than before, more opportunities to make us laugh.

]]> By: Frank https://blog.speculist.com/humanity/the-smart-ones.html#comment-5092 Frank Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:50:17 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2042#comment-5092 Perhaps the reason the Neanderthals died out when Sapiens didn’t is that they mostly ate meat so could not as readily adapt to times when the food animals were few and far between. The fact that Sapiens are omnivores would have given them a real advantage.

The following is taken from this article:
The application of isotopic analysis to some Neanderthal fossils, showed that they were carnivores that hunted open-ranging herbivores. Had the Neanderthals been scavengers, plant material would have formed a larger portion of their diet, giving rise to different isotopic values than measured. These Neanderthals had diets similar to nonhuman carnivores.

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