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According to Miller, the failure of the mating scenario may reflect our prehistoric ancestors not realizing that mating could result in children because of the
by johnny313 9y ago
According to Miller, the failure of the mating scenario may reflect our prehistoric ancestors not realizing that mating could result in children because of the nine months between mating and birth.
This seems to imply that successful evolutionary neural behaviors are consciously learned, as opposed to being "learned" over generations due to natural selection [0], in a similar way to how a neural network is trained.
[0] https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/50/10/883/234025 https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/50/10/883/234025
William G. Wright; Neuronal and Behavioral Plasticity in Evolution: Experiments in a Model Lineage: Evolutionary changes in sensory neurons correlate with changes in learning phenotypes, BioScience, Volume 50, Issue 10, 1 October 2000, Pages 883–894
- jacobrobbins 9y agoyeah when I saw that quote the first thing I thought is that this is probably one of those non-replicable studies that was cherry picked out of a small sample size.
- mc32 9y agoMaybe a nit, but I'm sure at least the female of the species observed something within a few months, rather than 9. Sure birth by 9, but I'm sure they felt hormonal changes, physical changes etc which culminated with bearing... so not quite a 9 month gap.