Metamorphosis pt. 2: The Cognitive Evolutionary Avant-Garde
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The Plasticity of Evolutionary Developmental Responses
The developmental delay we exhibit in our prefrontal cortex is like the most neotenous of all our traits according to this paper. We can see this very concrete very just sort of like physically palpable direct link between um gene activity and human cognitive uniqueness, he says. These genes that produce the synapses keep on rockin for years and years and years throughout the human lifespan until they finally tapering off when we're 10-years-old. The language of evolution and the language of development is really it's actually just one vocabulary right? It depends on context which terms we decide to use but developmental change is evolutionary change evolutionary change is developmental change.
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