Local minima. Dependencies between genes, other genes, and environment.
It’s better to be smarter “other things being equal”. But most things involve tradeoffs. The region of genetic/environmental state space where increased encephalization helps, and is likely to occur, may be very small.
Local minima. Dependencies between genes, other genes, and environment.
It’s better to be smarter “other things being equal”. But most things involve tradeoffs. The region of genetic/environmental state space where increased encephalization helps, and is likely to occur, may be very small.