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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by shmageggy on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:08PM (#11850403)
> ...sounds like a totally unproductive instance of cyclical thinking

Or a positive feedback loop of the kind that is known to drive evolutionary change

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by taneq on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:40AM (#11852807)
Exactly. Something gives an advantage, is selected for, the organism starts to mould its other attributes around that advantage, and a feedback loop starts. Colloquially, evolution will take a new advantageous feature and 'run with it'.
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