New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans

science daily ^

[TigersEye]

Everything is attributable to our Deity.

Except for the concept of deity. Beyond mind is reality.

[dr_lew]

Not actually. The human brain is in the chordate line, and thus has a common ancestor with all vertebrates, that ancestor being something along the lines of the famous "sea acorn worm".

This is not changed by these announced findings.

They are saying the ancestor of the archetypical chordate was this neural net thing, and thus the chordate brain has no ancestral brain in common with insects and mollusks, e.g.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[bert]

As a lumper, I find this to be the most magnificant example of splitter mentality.

No mere sundering of species in two, but the big kahuna......a new phylum.

[muawiyah]

Hey, all brains are made out of meat ~ even human brains ~ and meat is made out of cells with organelles and nucleus, and the nucleus has genes, and we can examine them to see which ones are the same.

Guarantee some of your genes are in chickens and vice versa.

[mutley]

"My interpretation is that most of these scientists read way too much into their findings."

Exactly. In fact, it's like a mental disease that should be given it's own name. Over the years, I have become VERY skeptical of any new findings, because of just that kind of super-mega-ultra-gnosis type of extrapolation.

[muawiyah]

You prefer, perhaps, entrail examination?

[mutley]

"You prefer, perhaps, entrail examination?"

That is my point. The conclusions drawn in some of these papers, looks like an entrail examination by people with degrees.

[muawiyah]

They are looking specifically at genomes ~ that gets way beyond "entrail examination", but if you prefer that technique go right ahead ~ in fact, you don't even have to kill the critters to start ~ get a colonoscope, look right in there eh!

[mutley]

"They are looking specifically at genomes ~ that gets way beyond "entrail examination", but if you prefer that technique go right ahead ~ in fact, you don't even have to kill the critters to start ~ get a colonoscope, look right in there eh!"

Cute, but meaningless.

[muawiyah]

Humorless apparatchik of the class enemy!

[mutley]

"Humorless apparatchik of the class enemy!"

Whatever that means. I know what it means, but not in reference to me. I guess if I were as smart as you, I'd get it. No need to explain.

[muawiyah]

Are you attempting to prove to us that even now all you really need is a neural net on the surface?

[RightWhale]

add that to your accumulated knowledge

Scientific knowledge is not additive. It is reformed into a new unity.