This was a Live Stream to chat with Pitch Lumin. We talked about outstanding issues related to our recent debate on Modern Day Debate: [ Ссылка ]

Some topics we discussed:
Pitch's understanding of predictions from evolutionary theory.
The difference between abiogenesis and evolution
The neuroscience of emotion and language
Natural selection and domestication
The Easter Challenge as written by Dan Barker of FFRF: [ Ссылка ]
Why true Christians should believe in a Flat Earth
Implicit Bias: [ Ссылка ]

Grayson from Based Theory also showed up on the stream at about 1:30:00. We talked about:
Gravity and the 2nd law of theromodynamics
Entropy
FoxP2 in songbirds and people
neural control of singing in songbirds
replay of neural activity during sleep and dreaming
Abiogenesis and amyloid world hypothesis
Svante Pääbo's work on ancient genomes in Neanderthals
ChatGPT makes things up

Link to Pitch Lumin: [ Ссылка ]
Link to Based Theory: [ Ссылка ]

Links to papers discussed:

Wilkins, A.S., Wrangham, R.W., and Fitch, W.T. (2014). The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics. Genetics 197, 795–808. 10.1534/genetics.114.165423.
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Pinson, A., Xing, L., Namba, T., Kalebic, N., Peters, J., Oegema, C.E., Traikov, S., Reppe, K., Riesenberg, S., Maricic, T., et al. (2022). Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals. Science 377, eabl6422. 10.1126/science.abl6422.
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Krings, M., Stone, A., Schmitz, R.W., Krainitzki, H., Stoneking, M., and Pääbo, S. (1997). Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans. Cell 90, 19–30. 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80310-4.
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Maury, C.P.J. (2018). Amyloid and the origin of life: self-replicating catalytic amyloids as prebiotic informational and protometabolic entities. Cell Mol Life Sci 75, 1499–1507. 10.1007/s00018-018-2797-9.
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