Interesting. So, the human brain is the scaled-up monkey brain with significant architectural changes.

What was the alternative?

Scaling-up without significant architectural changes.

Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.

Or a single magic mutation.

And if we ran an experiment where we gave it to some apes…

I'd really rather liked it if that supposedly "intelligent" designer took a bit more time at designing the urogenital tract of human males.

What's wrong with it?

Merely implies a very good fitness function.

The most successful animal by what metric?

Tetris high scores, obviously

The most successful at communicating their view that they are the most successful. Whether they are or not. But that means they are. By that metric.

Has another animal proposed they are more successful by a different metric?

Crickets?

You sound like you’ve never been disdainfully stared at by a cat..

Really interesting article though. I’m very hopeful AI can help work out how all these things interact.

Some of us don't spend days looking for food, don't die of cold, and survive the flu...

aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert

> aaand we have Quake and Comand&Conquer - Red Alert

Agreed, it would seem that evolutionary biology peaked in the late 90s then

So Steely Dan documented this first?