[HN Gopher] Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals
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Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals
Author : Hooke
Score : 45 points
Date : 2021-06-16 14:04 UTC (2 days ago)
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| wombatmobile wrote:
| > I think a proper examination of the variation within these
| species and the addition of other species would probably
| eliminate the appearance of negative allometry in the hominins.
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| What is "proper"?
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| The fact is simply that different species have different ratios.
| Any attempt to organise species measurements to show a trend is a
| fetish.
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| There is no trend. Animals just are what they are.
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| This need to infer a trend is rooted in the urge of (some) humans
| to rationalise their worldview of being superior to other
| animals.
| prionassembly wrote:
| Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point --
| which is very good. We're still overcommitted to tree-like
| "directed acyclic" mental models of evolution and life itself,
| despite convergent evolution (there are sea mammals?! there are
| sea mammals!!), epigenetics, horizontal gene transfer, wasp and
| orchid-type feature transfer...
| wombatmobile wrote:
| > Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point
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| Thanks for your comment about my comment.
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| Why do you think we're overcommitted to tree-like directed-
| acyclic mental modes of evolution?
| lurquer wrote:
| The urge of (some) humans to rationalise their worldview in
| terms of woody perinneal plants?
| wolverine876 wrote:
| Allometry predicts much about animals, according to the
| evidence. What evidence do you have?
| wombatmobile wrote:
| More allometry news
|
| https://www.topic.com/the-penis-poster-that-rubbed-people-th...
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