Evolution made human babies effectively premature, since bipedalism shrank pelvises while brains grew larger, forcing late fetal development outside the womb.

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• Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them. LSLyman Stone15 Jul 2025
• The gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability, because evolution was not optimising chimps for technology. PCPaul Christiano24 Feb 2018
• Evolution does not perfect anything; organisms are bodge jobs, which is why the human eye has a blind spot and a squid's does not. DHDave Hone4 Sept 2025
• The accepted model of how archaic and modern humans relate has been accreted and patched rather than built, and is due for a simpler replacement. DRDavid Reich8 May 2026
• Humanity's advantage is accumulated shared knowledge rather than higher intelligence — and AI models, which vanish with their context window, have none of it. NBNoam Brown26 Jun 2026

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