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Re:The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says by screye on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:13PM (#19486796)
Evolution is stupid.

Evolution doesn't try to head towards any global optima, so it is quite believable that certain things just don't work a certain way even if they sound 'obvious' to rational beings.

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Re:The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says by godelski on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:02PM (#19487592)
> Evolution doesn't try to head towards any global optima

If one even exists. I don't think you could actually say a global optima exists in a lot of cases. Since there are a lot of compounding factors and the functions aren't required to be continuous.

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Re:The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says by eanzenberg on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:56PM (#19487538)
Evolution: Requires a lot of things dying over a long period of time to get to where you are, today.
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