Forecasting the Biological Century - Razib Khan

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  • Опубліковано 7 лис 2024

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  • @michaels4255
    @michaels4255 4 місяці тому

    Very interesting discovery about the FOX2P gene!

  • @michaels4255
    @michaels4255 4 місяці тому +1

    Any bets on when the first transgenic baby will be born? (Of course, it will probably be in secret since virtually every country has outlawed it, which was very short sighted in my opinion.)

    • @kreek22
      @kreek22 4 місяці тому

      It's currently unsafe and, just as such prohibitory laws were made, such laws may be unmade. Ergo, not short sighted.

    • @michaels4255
      @michaels4255 4 місяці тому +1

      @@kreek22 In case you have not been paying attention to the history of legislation for the last 200+ years of the United States (and the same goes for European countries), it is VASTLY harder to repeal a law than it is to enact it in the first place. Just for one example, during the early 1800s, the UK created a position of watchman to monitor the English channel in case Napoleon I Bonaparte attempted an invasion of Britain. That position was not repealed until after WW2. Repealing laws is HARD. Germany still has some repressive laws on the books from the Nazi era (and enforces them). The US Congress passes large numbers of laws every single year, most with no debate. Any guesses about how many laws they *repeal* each year???

    • @kreek22
      @kreek22 4 місяці тому

      @@michaels4255 When something is both important and in the interest of the elite, it tends to happen. Your watchman was unimportant. Abortion was deemed important 50 years ago, so centuries of Christian-inspired laws were summarily trashed. If the elite wants transgenic babies, they'll repeat this overthrow. For now, a law against this is elite supported for a simple reason: it is obviously unsafe.

  • @jayanamandakone429
    @jayanamandakone429 4 місяці тому +1

    “As humanity now is, God once was; as God now is, humanity may become.”
    -Lorenzo Snow (5th President, LDS Church)

    • @michaels4255
      @michaels4255 4 місяці тому

      Didn't the Serpent in the Garden of Eden say basically the same thing to Eve?

  • @michaels4255
    @michaels4255 4 місяці тому +1

    Elephants have big brains, but a lot of that brain power is used to control their amazing nose.

    • @zyansheep
      @zyansheep 4 місяці тому

      Is that really true? Movement and kinesthetics doesn't feel like it should require too many neurons...

    • @michaels4255
      @michaels4255 4 місяці тому +1

      @@zyansheep According to mainstream scientific sources, yes, that is true. However, I have forgotten the total number of neurons, neuronal density, and the percentage of neurons devoted specifically to an elephant's trunk (although I remember it was impressively large), but you should be able to find it (eventually!) with search engines if you really want to see the data. BTW, its trunk has about 30,000 muscles that need to be coordinated by its brain. This is also why "you only use 10% of your brain" is untrue. Our brains do a lot of stuff that we don't consciously think about.