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I wonder if it just indicates evolutionary refinement. the “easy” way of increasing intelligence was bigger-and-bigger brains. when that strategy hit hard limits (such as the aforementioned childbirth and hip sizes or energy use) then network efficiency became the next evolutionary process.
I mean, I’m hardly qualified to say, but it seems at least as likely as “the wisdom of crowds,” which could also be true but doesn’t contradict my idea; they could have both happened simultaneously.
edit: I meant to reply to your earlier post about ants. I didn’t read the article in the post I actually replied to
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And I wonder if it has some correlation with the fact that babies have significantly more brain connections than adults do; the process of learning and growing means the brain strengthens some connections but prunes all of the rest by adulthood.
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(For full effect, open a packet of seaweed from some ramen and smell while looking at the picture.)
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Thanks, what a gorgeous image.
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The process uses potatoes.
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Cracking down on shrooms would mean incarcerating the physical province of Newfoundland. Shrooms grow there (edit, posted before
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IIRC Canada is obliged by international treaty to keep certain substances illegal. Now… taxes don’t cover the cost of alcohol to society by a fair stretch; shrooms are way down the intervention priority list compared to alcohol abuse, fentanyl, meth and heroin.
Legalization of cannabis has been a bit of a trial balloon, I think, on point (2).
Our Puritan cousins to the South will be disappointed to hear that the brief plague of locusts and that bit of half-hearted fire and brimstone some of y’all prayed up after we legalized pot didn’t really change our minds, /s and it’s been pretty much business as usual since. 
…bit like when we legalized gay marriage, really: it’s not my thing but our country is that wee bit happier now.
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I’d buy that record.
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Man uses an alligator as a weapon. He drawn a small alligator to intimidate his enemies and lifeguards.
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Supply chain issues.
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sperm quality
We’re a little too obsessed with sperm quality. Maybe we should… I don’t know, stop fucking up our planet and maybe we’d all be healthier across the board?
Also… pay wall on the article.
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I’m just sorry for the poor bastard whose job is grading sperm quality.
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Could be worse, I guess? Grading sperm quality of the rest of the animal kingdom? Grading poop quality?
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