On Information: An Edge Conversation
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Claims that modern human cognition and sociality diverge from Neandertals based on whole genome comparisons and ancient DNA recovery, reporting 30,000 single-letter changes between genomes and about 96 protein-changing mutations in 87 proteins as a short candidate list. Methods include high-quality Neandertal sequencing, extraction from a ~400,000-year-old fossil, induced pluripotent stem cells and brain organoids to humanize or “neanderthalize” cell lines, plus discussion of quantum cryptography, teleportation and the engineering limits of quantum computing.
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