Friday, March 11, 2005

進化

最近読んでる本の中で面白い話があった。
進化はより高度になるとは限らないのだそうだ。
その中でホヤ(Ciona intestinalis) に関しての例があった。
この小さな連中は、幼生のころは運動して獲物を捕るので、脳を必要とする。しかし、いったん適所を見つけて固着生活に入ると、もう考える必要がなくなり、エネルギー面で負担の大きい脳を自分で食べてしまう。脳は大量のエネルギーを消費するため、それが必要がなくなれば、処分してしまうのが得策なのである。  -- Galileo's Finger

hmm...何か考えちゃうね。 何だかそんな人間もいるような、、。

5 Comments:

At 12:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think many people study things when in college and then retire their hat-racks after that....
In Japan maybe many people stop studying after they pass their college entrance exams?
Most people are very practical when it comes to using their brains, they don't want to wear their brains out unless they are paid for it somehow....

 
At 1:26 AM, Blogger yuki said...

I was wondering ... If they decide to stay one place and eat up their brains, but later they found that they don’t actually like the place they stay, then they already eaten up their brains and won’t have the ability to move around. ... But I guess they probably don’t think whether the place is good or not as they don’t have their brains. So, they will never complain.
I wonder having a brain is a happy thing... :P

 
At 4:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

当然把脑子吃光之后较少忧天空要下来比较少想哲学方面的深奥难决的困难问题... 可是不少人继续存在下去跟退休的脑子, 而他们没有你的大胆优越该赞美的人间性! 可是说不定你是由于大胆灵魂所以想生命最主要问题... 或只是因为你就被成巨大脑子的操纵! 哈!

 
At 4:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

--Henry Youngman

 
At 5:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmm, if you look at
http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003747.html
then you see what might happen... the brainless humans might be used as sources of organs for organ transplants! ah! Better keep our brains to protect our organs!

 

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