On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:29 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> >>> What if they are hyper-intelligent social insects, >> >> >> > >> I don't think that's possible under Darwinian evolution. >> > > I don't see why Darwin would prevent it if circumstances favored it. And > there is a counterexample, Naked Mole Rats are not hyper-intelligent but > they're smarter than insects and are mammals and are almost as social as > the social insects. > Cool, I didn't know eusocial mammals existed. I couldn't figure this out on a quick search: do they also have supersisters / haplodiploidy? One problem I can see is that sharing genetic code to such an extent might make it harder to avoid local maxima in the fitness landscape, so less likely to progress to something akin to the level of complexity of the human brain. This intuition is confirmed by computer simulations, but of course real biology might present other nunaces that change the picture. Telmo. > > John K Clark > > > > > >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
