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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness

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What Are the Most Brilliant Innovations and Transformations?

The worm is like windows 95, very few features, very basic. And us humans are like windows vista, windows 10, whatever it is. So you basically have layers of addition of compartmentalization of specialization on top of this zine to get all the way to the F-zine. The next big transformation is multicellular life forms, where the specialization separates the germline from everything else that a companion is it and sort of carries it. This massive brain is something that arises much, much later on than the first spinal cord. You basically now have more and more decision making and coordination of all of these different body parts and organs by a central operating system.

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