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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Subject: Evolution of the human brain's cognitive capacity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.025548.27816@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:55:48 GMT
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- I was wondering, is there an evolutionary explanation for the great
- capacities humans have to think? I'm thinking about things like our
- ability to do advanced mathematics, for instance. There is no
- evolutionary survival advantage in being able to solve differential
- equations, for instance. If this is the case, then *why*, in
- evolutionary terms, can we do such things?
-
- Curious,
-
- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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