News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals. Parent comment

Re:Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals by lqdc13 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @04:17AM (#11201642)
How is this proof of that? They just found something that worked through trial and error.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals by EdwardDiego on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @06:19AM (#11201995)
As opposed to... what we do?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals by lqdc13 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:08PM (#11204667)
Non-human animals also find random things that work for whatever it is they're doing.

Chimps eat a plant called Veronia that kills gut parasites. Does it mean chimps are smarter than humans and are also doctors?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals by a_imho on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @06:32AM (#11202028)
Build a model, predict a particle and verify its existence?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Selection and Use of Manganese Dioxide by Neanderthals by norea-armozel on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @08:55AM (#11202556)
That's a relatively recent development in terms of systemizing knowledge discovery. Prior, people literally just mixed stuff together to see what happened.
[ Parent | on HN ]