Rebel Demon King

Chapter 479 Reptiles in the Garden of Eden
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Yan Funing ended the call with Li Jiting and walked out of the private study room of the Imperial College Library. For Yan Funing, going to the library is a daily routine. Academic research cannot be ignored. Academic achievements can even create brand-new skills, and the benefits brought are far greater than that of brushing dungeons or killing other chosen ones.

It's just that joining academia is a more rugged and difficult road. This is a climbing road in which talent, luck, environment and hard work are indispensable.

The reason why Yan Funing is highly valued in Tai Chi Dragon is that he is not only talented in combat, a rare ultra-long-range attacker in Tai Chi Dragon, but also has a lot of academic achievements. Annals of Mathematics), "Inventiones Mathematicae", "Acta Mathematica" and "Journal Of The American Mathematical Society" published five papers.

Among them, "Quasi-Isometrics and Deformations of Einstein Manifolds" and "A Method to Solve L2 Expansion Problems Using Optimal Estimation and Application" are extremely valuable. If he was studying in a domestic university, he would have been famous in the academic circle for a long time. However, Yan Funing used an English name for his dissertation at Imperial College.

Don't think that five articles are too few, you must know that those who can publish an article in these four top mathematics journals are even considered eligible to be elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.In fact, all Huaxia has published more than 50 papers in these four top journals.

And Yan Funing is not only a researcher, he allocates his time very well, all social (social) activities are on weekends, and writing math problems and writing codes requires meditation, so Monday to Friday is basically in the spent in the library.

Yan Funing is different from Cheng Mo's autistic person who has no interest in socializing. He doesn't like socializing, but a pragmatist like him pays great attention to socializing. Yan Funing deeply understands that socializing is the shortcut to success.

And the reason why he put all the social activities on weekends is also a helpless move, because the boys in the mathematics department of Imperial College are too hard, and there is no social interaction at all, even if they participate in all the activities, there are not many.

The funniest thing is that on Valentine’s Day, a classmate of LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) invited him to go to LSE for a fellowship, and he agreed to go. When he got there, there were boys from other schools, but the funny thing was that all the boys from Imperial College All of them are from their mathematics department, and there is no one from other departments. From this, we can see how sad the mathematics department of Imperial College is.
To put it bluntly, the mathematics department has different social opportunities from other departments. In other departments, there are one or two girls, but their mathematics department has no girls at all, not even female teachers. For them, girls It’s -∞ (minus infinity), a group of old men usually don’t have much social skills. Although outsiders jokingly call Britain a corrupt country, science and engineering are almost synonymous with straight men, and there is no brotherly romance.

Therefore, the only thing a group of old men can do is to do research, and only on weekends do they have the opportunity to go to other colleges or other colleges to participate in social activities.

Yan Funing walked out of the library with a backpack on his shoulders. The library of Imperial College is different from the castles with historical atmosphere in Oxford or Cambridge. It is a typical modern building, which is composed of large glass and granite, showing a sense of modernity. cold.

This kind of temperament matches Yan Funing very well. She has a clean and fair face, delicate skin, and has been carefully maintained at first glance. Her hairstyle is also meticulous. She is wearing a custom-made dark blue short jacket, slim black slacks, and brown flip-leather boots. There is an aloofness in the fashionable appearance, and it looks like an elite among the children of the aristocratic family.

In this regard, Yan Funing is completely different from Cheng Mo. Cheng Mo doesn't have too many requirements for appearance and clothing, as long as he is comfortable.

Yan Funing walked past the towering Queen's Tower near the campus gate, where the school occasionally rents a crane to let students play bungee jumping here, which is considered a traditional activity of Imperial College.

Yan Funing followed the less dense crowd out of the school. Imperial College is located in South Kensington (South Kensington) on the Piccadilly Line (Piccadilly Line). It is a wealthy area. It is safe, prosperous and not noisy. It is just across the street. Hyde Park, not far from Hyde Park is the famous Buckingham Palace.

Autumn in London is a fairyland, especially near Buckingham Palace. The warm northern latitude sunshine and golden maple leaves are everywhere. It is really wonderful to match the palace made of white jade.

Yan Funing walked along the Royal Post Road, with towering giant trees on both sides of the road, the whole avenue was like a green "tunnel".There are forests, rivers, and lawns on both sides of the trees, and there are thousands of hectares of green fields, which are quiet, warm and leisurely.

Yan Funing walked leisurely, walked to the edge of Jiuqu Lake, and then walked westward along the south bank of Jiuqu Lake until he saw the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain.The shape of this fountain is very special. It is actually a circular channel with certain ups and downs, which looks like a string of necklaces lying on the green field.

Yan Funing easily found Li Jiting, who was wearing a peaked cap and holding a drawing board, sitting on a bench by the lake concentrating on painting. Seeing that Li Jiting was facing the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Yan Funing thought that he was painting the fountain and Swans swimming in Jiuqu Lake.

However, Yan Funing took a closer look and saw that this was not the case at all. What Li Jiting drew on the drawing board with a charcoal pencil was a group of dinosaurs running on the lawn.Yan Funing is not interested in this extinct species at all, except for the giraffe and tyrannosaurus rex, he doesn't know any other species.

If Cheng Mo was here, he would have recognized that what Li Jiting actually painted was not a long-necked dragon and a tyrannosaurus rex, but an Allosaurus and an ostrichoid. Allosaurus and a tyrannosaurus rex look alike, but in fact It is not a dinosaur, and the same ostrich and velociraptor are not a dinosaur at all.

Yan Funing didn't bother Li Jiting's painting, even though he wasn't interested in dinosaurs at all, he stood behind Li Jiting, pretending to enjoy watching, until Li Jiting finished painting the whole painting, he looked up and asked, "Have you watched "Jurassic World 2"?" ?"

Yan Funing shook his head, "I have never been interested in this kind of commercial blockbuster, in fact I rarely even watch movies."

Li Jiting smiled, "Actually, I really like watching this kind of sci-fi movie. Not long ago, the largest dinosaur footprint fossil with a history of 1.7 million years was discovered in a Scottish lagoon. A few days ago, I went to the Natural History Museum of Oxford University to see it. "

Li Jiting closed his eyes, raised his head slightly, and said softly with a longing look: "Now imagine, 1.8 million years ago, this piece of land was once a paradise for dinosaurs."

"Weak mammals like us can only hide XZ in order to avoid becoming food in the Mesozoic era dominated by predators and reptiles. Even compared with mammals, dinosaurs are so stupid. For example, the brain capacity of Tyrannosaurus rex is about 200 cubic centimeters, sauropods were 150 cubic centimeters, Triceratops was 20 cubic centimeters, Diplodocus was 50 cubic centimeters, and Stegosaurus was 30 cubic centimeters. None of them can come close to the chimpanzee brain in absolute weight. Weight. Stegosaurus weighing 2 tons may be much stupider than rabbits. If the huge weight of dinosaurs is taken into account, the brains of dinosaurs are extremely small. Tyrannosaurus rex weighed 8 tons, Diplodocus weighed 12 tons, sauropod dinosaurs Weighs 87 tons. In terms of brain weight to body weight ratio, the ratio of sauropod dinosaurs is 10000 times smaller than that of humans. Just like sharks, it has the largest brain in fish in terms of weight. Like Tyrannosaurus rex These carnivorous dinosaurs had relatively larger brains than herbivorous dinosaurs such as Diplodocus and sauropods. We are sure that Tyrannosaurus rex was an efficient killing machine. Compared with the brilliant and difficult opponents of mammals, they are extremely weak in intelligence."

"However, regardless of the IQ of dinosaurs, this does not affect its status in the slightest. It is still the overlord of the world, firmly occupying the top of the food chain. If they were not extinct, the ancestors of human beings would not have come down from the trees at all. Maybe, once counting down, it can only become food or be trampled to death by huge dinosaurs, so for 5000 million years, our ancestors did not evolve at all.”

Li Jiting opened his eyes, lowered his head and pointed to the Allosaurus on the drawing board with the charcoal pencil in his hand and said: "The dinosaurs are constantly evolving. This is the large carnivorous dinosaur with the highest IQ in the Jurassic period. The animal with the highest intelligence quotient, although Tyrannosaurus rex is huge in size and frightens all living beings wherever it goes, but Tyrannosaurus rex has poor eyesight and is not as flexible as Allosaurus. This animal is very cunning, not only knows how to divide labor Cooperation, team fighting, and good at hiding and sneak attacking, often go up to participate in other animals fighting. In the Jurassic era, there was a carnivorous tyrannosaurus that was three times larger than Yi Telong, and Yi Telong still dared to go up Let’s go challenge it. If the dinosaurs are not extinct, the Allosaurus may evolve into the most terrifying killing machine in the world.”

Then Li Jiting pointed to the ostrichosaurus on the drawing board and said: "If judged according to the ratio of brain weight to body weight, the most intelligent dinosaur should be ostrichosaurus. Its typical brain weight to body weight ratio is about 50." The gram ratio is 50000 grams. This dinosaur is very similar to an ostrich, so it is called ostrichosaurus. It may be instructive to examine their large fossil skull inner molds. They may have hunted small animals and used hand-like appendages The four fingers can be used for various tasks, and it is incredible to use the claws to grasp the branches for food."

Yan Funing stared at the drawing board, which looked like an ostrich. Its claws were long and thick, hanging down like human hands, growing under the body of an ostrich-like dinosaur. Tell him this, but he didn't ask why, just listened quietly.

"Dinosaurs are interesting animals to study. If the dinosaurs hadn't mysteriously gone extinct about 500 million years ago, could the dinosaurs have evolved into increasingly intelligent life forms? Could they have learned to hunt large groups in groups? mammals, thus preventing the rapid proliferation of mammals at the end of the Mesozoic Era? If the dinosaurs had not become extinct, would the dominant life form on the earth today be the descendants of Camelosaurus? Can this life form Writing, reading, or being able to speculate on what would happen if mammals prevailed? Would the dominant life form consider base 8 to be fully in line with natural arithmetic, and base 10 to be just a new math instruction One of the unnecessary decorations?"

At this time, Yan Funing shook his head, "I think that under the definition of evolution theory, they will not, because the evolution direction of dinosaurs is bigger, stronger and faster, and they develop in the direction of the body, while the evolution direction of us humans is Giving up the advantages of the body and developing towards the advantages of the brain. It can be said that the evolution direction of dinosaurs and us humans is diametrically opposite."

Li Jiting looked at Yan Funing and smiled, and said meaningfully: "Regardless of whether the ostrichosaurus has the opportunity to evolve wisdom, it cannot be denied that in the tens of millions of years of earth history, we believe that a large number of important events must be based on the uniqueness of dinosaurs." Extinction is a transfer. If the dinosaurs did not become extinct, human beings would not be able to be born. What puzzles us is why the dinosaurs, as the overlords of the earth, suddenly disappeared. Although there are dozens of scientific hypotheses trying to explain this impact on land Quite a prominent and severe event for aquatic life forms. But none of the explanations are perfect. These explanations range from large climate changes to mammalian predation, all the way to the extinction of plants with laxative properties, which caused constipation in dinosaurs. Death, and the planetary impact proposed in the 80s are all hypotheses, because there are loopholes in any theory. Take the theory of 'planetary impact' as an example, it has the following flaws: First, the assumption of 'planetary impact' If the theory is established, then the dinosaurs became extinct quickly in a short period of time. However, in recent years, more and more experts believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs is a relatively long process. Second, the silicate dust caused by planetary impacts stays in the atmosphere The time is not long, only a few short months, can it cause the extinction of large-scale organisms?"

After a pause, Li Jiting said lightly: "However, no matter what kind of hypothesis is good, countless evidences can prove that there must have been some kind of unknown great change 6500 million years ago, which caused the earth's hegemon to quickly come to an end. And not a slow process of boiling the frog, but not so fast that it disappeared overnight."

Li Jiting stood up from the bench, took off the sketch paper with a group of dinosaurs clipped on the drawing board, and handed it to Yan Funing, "For you. In a book that has not been published, put mammals The description of the origin is connected with the wonderful legend of Adam being expelled from the Garden of Eden in the "Genesis" myth. In the book, he divided the human brain into three parts. The "Trinity" hypothesis (Note [-]) is earlier in time, I think you should know that the three brains are: reptilian brain, mammalian brain, and cortical brain, and it is precisely because of the development of the reptile brain that humans can endow Adam and Eve with the fruit of knowledge of good and evil —Abstract and Moral Neocortical Functions Remember who tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit?"

"It's Satan who turned into a reptile"

　Note 1 - The Trinity of the Brain: Paul McLean, a neurologist, hypothesized that there is not only one brain in the human cranial cavity, but three.As products of different stages of human evolution, these three brains cover the existing brain layer in order of appearance, just like archaeological sites. Paul called it the "trinity of the human brain" structure.McLean, now director of the Brain Evolution and Behavior Laboratory in Poolesville, Maryland, says the three brains operate like "three interconnected biological computers, each with independent intelligence, Subjectivity, Sense of Time and Space, and Memory".He called these three brains the neocortex or neomammalian brain, the limbic system or paleomammalian brain, and the reptilian brain, the brainstem and cerebellum.Each brain is connected to the other two via nerves, but each operates as an independent system and performs its own functions.

　　
　
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