I do take extreme issue with your comparison between the bonobo and human brains, which while somewhat true, is no more so true than any other primate brain, large in comparison to other animals and such but human brains are completely unique when it comes to the animal kingdom(I've spent enough time looking at various primate skulls to know the differences, anthropology being my discipline). Modern humans have the largest proportional brain size by far amongst primates with the most unique shape as well, the closest in function and form being that of the extinct Neanderthalensis which is believed to have interbred with humans many millenia ago. No living primate has a brain which could ever be fairly compared to that of anything in our genus present(us) or past(more than a dozen others)
2692492 Actually, the human brain is identical to a Bonobo's. The only real difference is that humans have a frontal lobe that has grown to extreme proportions. The way our brian fires off synapses and nuerons in our primitive brain---not the frontal lobe that controls cognitive function---is exactly like a Bonobo's brain.
If you rip out a human's frontal lobe, he/she becomes a Bonobo, at least behaviorally.
Agreed with Maenic there (my tablet has no umlaut key).
The German is also wrong. Julian is asking more along the lines of how the salad is (ex: is the salad a good person), and Raquel responded that the salad is the concept of good.
The correct German is: Wie schemckt deinen Salat? (How does your salad taste?) Es schmeckt mir gut. (It tastes good to me.)
One of my dads old teachers taught himself a new language every year and went to the country where it was the native tongue, I think he learned 30 something languages before he stopped. He said it became very easy to learn languages after the fifth one.
Anyhow this is a great story! Liked and faved!
Ps. What kind of abilities has the humans gotten since arriving?
Yeah, sorry about that. I just used Google Translate for the languages. I hoped that it would give me a reasonable facsimile, but I guess it was way off.
2693933 Eh, it's no problem. If anything, I'm happy that I finally got to use those three years of high school German classes, and one year of university classes in the real world. All of that effort didn't go to waste
I figured as much. Google translate is good for single words or short phrases, but it loses accuracy when it comes to full sentences. It's one of the reason I always put a warning on any story I use it in, along with a request to any that really knows the language to help fix what Google broke.
2692497 I'd like to see the literature you are pulling from to make your assumptions about the similarities between our brains, and this is not a sarcastic comment I am honestly interested in reading it to see how it bases it when every bit of peer review I have read on the subject states the uniqueness of the human brain(especially in the temporal and frontal lobes which are the two biggest parts of the human brain)
I'll see if I can find it. But just so you know, i'm not trying to say that the human brain isn't unique. It's the most unique brain on our planet. What I was saying that our primitive brain reacts the same ways that a Bonobo's brain does.
The frontal lobe, because it is so developed in humans, simply acts as an inhibitor for behavior.
Curious.. No Neighpon in your Equestria? One of Photo Finish's entorage has Asiatic features and has been referred to here and there as being Neighponese.
I do take extreme issue with your comparison between the bonobo and human brains, which while somewhat true, is no more so true than any other primate brain, large in comparison to other animals and such but human brains are completely unique when it comes to the animal kingdom(I've spent enough time looking at various primate skulls to know the differences, anthropology being my discipline). Modern humans have the largest proportional brain size by far amongst primates with the most unique shape as well, the closest in function and form being that of the extinct Neanderthalensis which is believed to have interbred with humans many millenia ago. No living primate has a brain which could ever be fairly compared to that of anything in our genus present(us) or past(more than a dozen others)
but, other than that issue, it is still quite good
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Actually, the human brain is identical to a Bonobo's. The only real difference is that humans have a frontal lobe that has grown to extreme proportions. The way our brian fires off synapses and nuerons in our primitive brain---not the frontal lobe that controls cognitive function---is exactly like a Bonobo's brain.
If you rip out a human's frontal lobe, he/she becomes a Bonobo, at least behaviorally.
This has been a very informative chapter.
Agreed with Maenic there (my tablet has no umlaut key).
The German is also wrong. Julian is asking more along the lines of how the salad is (ex: is the salad a good person), and Raquel responded that the salad is the concept of good.
The correct German is:
Wie schemckt deinen Salat? (How does your salad taste?)
Es schmeckt mir gut. (It tastes good to me.)
One of my dads old teachers taught himself a new language every year and went to the country where it was the native tongue, I think he learned 30 something languages before he stopped. He said it became very easy to learn languages after the fifth one.
Anyhow this is a great story! Liked and faved!
Ps. What kind of abilities has the humans gotten since arriving?
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Yeah, sorry about that. I just used Google Translate for the languages. I hoped that it would give me a reasonable facsimile, but I guess it was way off.
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Eh, it's no problem. If anything, I'm happy that I finally got to use those three years of high school German classes, and one year of university classes in the real world. All of that effort didn't go to waste
I figured as much. Google translate is good for single words or short phrases, but it loses accuracy when it comes to full sentences. It's one of the reason I always put a warning on any story I use it in, along with a request to any that really knows the language to help fix what Google broke.
2692497 I'd like to see the literature you are pulling from to make your assumptions about the similarities between our brains, and this is not a sarcastic comment I am honestly interested in reading it to see how it bases it when every bit of peer review I have read on the subject states the uniqueness of the human brain(especially in the temporal and frontal lobes which are the two biggest parts of the human brain)
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I'll see if I can find it. But just so you know, i'm not trying to say that the human brain isn't unique. It's the most unique brain on our planet. What I was saying that our primitive brain reacts the same ways that a Bonobo's brain does.
The frontal lobe, because it is so developed in humans, simply acts as an inhibitor for behavior.
Curious.. No Neighpon in your Equestria? One of Photo Finish's entorage has Asiatic features and has been referred to here and there as being Neighponese.
I am French and I cringed. Still, I like it so far, I don't get why it's got so many dislikes.