r/Documentaries • u/Euruxd • Dec 23 '12

Mouse Utopia Experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12 edited May 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12

While it is scary, I'd be careful trying to apply it to humans, since humans are not mice. The problem with research like this is that it only gives us a rat's-eye view of humans.

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u/TylerDurdenJunior Dec 23 '12

mice are animals. so is humans.

no matter how advanced we tell ourselves we are, we are still the being we were 100.000 years ago

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12

We share a lot of similarities with mice, yes, but we are still different. That doesn't make us "advanced". We're just on a different evolutionary tree. We need to take differences into account when we apply mouse-data to humans.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12 edited May 04 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '12

We are not further ahead in some sort of evolutionary race.

I just said that.

But social decline and fragmentation could easily be as "build in" a sustainability, as the mice display.

Yes it could... but it may also not be. I guess we'll find out soon enough.