Re:The controversy over child killing among Amazon tribes in...
by arkades on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:29AM
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While the line drawing fallacy certainly comes into play here, one can with some confidence say that /before a single neuron is formed/ is most certainly a safe spot to point at and say “not yet.”
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Re:The controversy over child killing among Amazon tribes in...
by jeffdavis on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:04PM
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I didn't quickly find a definitive answer about the time the first neuron forms, but some brief searching around seems to indicate the neurons are already assembling into complex structures before 5 weeks.
So it seems like development of the first neuron would be well before that, and not a very practically-useful line.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_bra...