I love that someone actually did a study about dogs and dog owners. Anyone know what the paper is that Sally is referring to? It sounds like a fun read.
Also, Gus, this episode proves more than ever that maybe you should procreate. :D
I volunteer as tribute.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/15/5/361.short
I think this is the study. Only the abstract is free.
This is the BBC article about the study: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151111-why-do-dogs-look-like-their-owners
So, if growing a big jaw takes a bunch of energy, why doesn't leafy spend his extra energy on making good videos?
This video actually made me question evolutionary science. The wisdom tooth explanation just felt convoluted, almost like guess work. Perhaps it's just me.
It's not guess work. I do understand where you got lost though. Think of it this way, in natural selection where only the strongest survive. Not having wisdom teeth can take out one risk of getting any infection so it would be advantageous in a world that lives by natural selection. However, humans really have done a lot to fight natural selection to where people survive when a century ago they would not have. In that sense, people that would not have survived in the past to pass on their genes now have the opportunity to procreate. So there are many ways in the human race that we aren't necessarily evolving because it is not necessary to survive and procreate.
Why was this lame? I thought the explanation was lacking and made me question what I thought. Why is this community so sensitive?
And Iamnamelss, that was a far better explainstion. Thanks.
Yep, and then sometimes someone comes along and figures out or discovers something that completely throws everything we think we know out the window. But that's the beauty of science and humanities never ending quest to understand the world around us and beyond. Barriers get broken, science fiction becomes science fact. In just a few hundred years we more then double human life expectancy, In a little less then 70 years we go from first flight to moon landing and know we are in the early stages of looking at what it would take to colonize another planet. The truth is are journey of decovery has been more fascinating then anyone could have imagined
Guess Gus is going to have to start watching out for Dan the Man now.
Re: Dogs looking like their owners - what of the possibility that dogs learn and mimic facial expressions of their owners? Recent research shows that dogs involuntarily mimic the expressions of other dogs - a trait we thought was exclusive to hominid apes like us. I don't know if the research has yet been done to see if dogs also involuntarily mimic human expressions, which could account for some of the similarity between dogs and their owners.
mimicking actions isn't the same as looking like. the research done that sally was talking about didn't involve movement. it was just" look at these humans and these dogs, what matches" and people were still able to tell even though it was still images
Yeah for sure, but if you're mimicking someone you are intending to look as much like them as possible. It's not a big stretch to think that dogs learn expressions from people through mimicry, the same way children do. If you're dog is constantly mimicking you, then they're making an effort to look like you. Just another learned behaviour - and dogs excel at learning from humans.
Once again an fun and interesting episode, always happy to hear from the roosterteeth interllect elect Sally le page :)
Really enjoying this series!
Yep, you definitely do not want a tooth infection. Learned that the hard way!
Suffering my second one now, can concur.
Sally is so pretty, I love how her eyes and smile are so friendly and bright. I don't even know her and I'd trust her with my life.
Came into the comment section looking for this exact comment, was not disappointed.
Love this show so much! Gus and Sally are a perfect combination.
No such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people LoL
I think Gavin would disagree with you.
Isn't the issue with impacted wisdom teeth that removing them is more difficult and more invasive? If it is going to inevitably cause pain why not get them removed before they do damage by impacting or moving other teeth?
Its not inevitable for pain to come. people can have wisdom teeth and die of old age with them having no issues.
If people lose teeth further forward the problem can be alleviated, the problems caused are minor in comparison to the dangers of surgery (I believe having them removed normally involves general anaesthetic which is something that a lot of surgeons are slowly trying to avoid more and more due to the complications it can cause but is generally considered unavoidable in the case of wisdom tooth removal), wisdom teeth are not always impacted or do not always become so.
Overall there are a lot of reasons to postpone surgery until it becomes necessary, it less like patching a hole in tarmac than patching a hole in the chassis of your car.
I.e. you can't just turn up and fill in the hole with tarmac and let it set, you have to take the car to a garage with a lift, lift up the car and weld a part to fix the hole in a way that doesn't make the chassis more brittle or lose strength in case of crashes and then get it back out of the garage without any damage, without being able to turn off the engine or electrics or drain the oil or brake fluid - but with a machine more complex than any machine that humans have ever devised and with no blueprint in general (only a sketched diagram and a few notes on the back of a napkin), never mind the individual model you're working with (which is especially pertinent to wisdom teeth given some people have them and others don't and they can't be in all different sorts of states with those that do never mind the cramped working conditions of a mouth - my own bite is almost twice the size of my wife's! Lucky me at the dentist, unlucky her :(
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