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buntress
8y ago
I'd imagine there are slides, and slides, and slides of ape neurons in circulation, possibly imaged as photomicrographs and stored in digital libraries, and heaping data sets of genomic primate data. Are data rights costly? I doubt tha
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buntress
8y ago
Please don’t repost other user’s posts, because you have a formatting preference.
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buntress
8y ago
Well, yeah, but ape brains from deceased apes in captivity are probably short-listed for science experiments and not cremation or natural burial. So it’s probably less difficult than finding a match for an organ donor, no? I think they have
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buntress
8y ago
300 is kind of a paltry number. One high school’s population, for a medium sized town. Look at one high school, then another. Take each high school from opposite ends of the country. Same results? Not sure about that. But hey, magic number
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buntress
8y ago
Once an aspect of human exceptionalism is noted, I would imagine one would look at chimpanzees as the next analogue, and not mice. Nearest neighbor, top down, based on genetic similarity. If you’ve got something, and it seems that it’s only