Double-Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, November 16th, 2017 9:50pm PST - doublepromote requested by oritteropo.

Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

*related=https://videosift.com/video/Evo-Devo-Despacito-Biology-Parody-A-Capella-Science (about the atoms, molecules, and cells making up creatures or people)
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I have a bit of an issue with Dr.Naku and his musings about biology, especially after seeing him butcher and mangle the theory of evolution and say that humans have "by-and-large" stopped evolving. Which is bullshit. (http://bigthink.com/ideas/26647)

I'm sure Dr.Naku is an excellent theoretical physicist, but he has shown that he doesnt really master biology all that well. I have a feeling he does the same thing here. There are all sorts of problems that might not be solvable here. Animals are more, biologically speaking, than a DNA "recipe" that you can simply "put into an egg", there are all sorts of evo-devo that comes in to complicate this tremendously. It is not at all clear that simply sequencing a genome (assumming its a complete and 100% accurate sequencing, which I'm pretty sure it isnt for the neanderthal and mammoth) that comes into play here. In other words, the limitation might not be our technology. Its a bit like the zoom-in-and-enhance-it problem you have in Hollywood movies. it doesnt matter if you have a billion-dollar computer from the year 4350 if the original recording is an old VHS tape of a CCTV recording.

Umm...

Okay, so lets take this apart.

Premise: Evo-Devo can't explain early human brain growth.
I'll leave this be, there are a number of theories, which while none is clearly true, make an effort, but he doesn't mention any of them so lets look at his.

1) mushrooms add visual acuity in small doses +survival
2) mushrooms make males horny in small doses +reproduce
3) mushrooms make you catatonic in large doses ---survival and creative/intelligent +?

This seems at best a wash for mushrooms->survival, and still does not address brain growth.

If mushrooms give us extra creativity, then why would we build extra brain matter that does the same thing? I don't see how this, in any way, addresses the issue of brain growth in humans, as he claims to at the outset, whereas "language", "throwing stuff" and "complex social groups" all constitute gradual advantages provided by brain growth that provide evolutionary advantage in a planes environment.