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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, for Yan Funing, going to the library is a daily routine, even if he is the Chosen One, he is not exempt from vulgarity, in fact, as the Chosen One, he cannot ignore academic research, academic achievements can even create new skills, and the benefits brought by it are far greater than brushing copies or killing other Chosen People.

It's just that devoting yourself to academia is a more rugged and difficult path, and it's a path that is indispensable for talent, luck, circumstance, and hard work.

The reason why Yan Funing is highly regarded in Taijilong is because he is not only very talented in combat and belongs to the rare ultra-long-range attacker of Taijilong, but also has a lot of academic achievements, which have accumulated in "Annals of Mathematics", "Inventiones Mathematicae", "Acta Mathematica" and "Journal of the Mathematical Society of China" (Journal Of The American Mathematical Society).

Among them, "Quasi-equidistant and deformation of Einstein's manifolds" and "A method for solving the L2 expansion problem with optimal estimation and application" are extremely golden, if he was studying in a domestic university, he would have already made a name for himself in the academic circle, but Yan Funing used an English name for his paper at Imperial College.

Don't think that five articles are very few, you must know that those who can publish an article in these four top mathematics journals are even considered eligible to run for academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In fact, there are only more than 50 papers published in these four top journals.

And Yan Funing is not only a person who knows how to do research, he allocates his time very well, all social activities are held on weekends, and writing math problems and coding are all to be meditative, so he basically spends Monday to Friday in the library.

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

And the reason why he put all his social activities on weekends is also a helpless move, because the math boys at Imperial College are so hard that they usually don't have much social interaction at all, and even if they go to all the activities, there are not many of them.

The funniest thing is that once on Valentine's Day, a classmate from LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) invited him to LSE for a fellowship, and then he agreed to go, and where he went, there were boys from other schools, but the funny thing was that all the boys from Imperial College were from their mathematics department, and none of the other departments were there.....

To put it bluntly, the mathematics department is different from other departments that have various social opportunities, and other departments have one or two girls in how good they are, and there are no girls in their mathematics department at all, not even female faculty, for them girls are -∞ (negative infinity), a group of big men usually have no social interaction, although outsiders jokingly call Britain a corrupt country, but science and engineering are almost synonymous with straight men, and there is no brother romance.

Therefore, the only thing a group of big men can do is do research, and only on weekends can 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 back, the library of Imperial College is not the same as the castle of Oxford or Cambridge, which has a precipitated historical atmosphere, it is a typical modern building, composed of large expanses of glass and granite, revealing a modern coldness.

This kind of temperament matches Yan Funing very well, with a clean and fair face, delicate skin, carefully maintained at a glance, and meticulous hairstyle, wearing a Prada dark blue short jacket, with slim black slacks and brown leather boots, the whole person looks fashionable with a high coldness that rejects people thousands of miles away, and at first glance it is the elite of the children of the family.

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

Yan walked past the towering Queen's Tower near the campus gates, where the school occasionally rents a crane for students to bungee jump, a traditional activity at Imperial College.

Imperial College London is in South Kensington, the Piccadilly Line, a wealthy area that is safe, bustling and not noisy, and you will get across the street to Hyde Park, not far from the famous Buckingham Palace.

Autumn in London is a wonderland, especially near Buckingham Palace, where the warm north latitude sunshine, the golden maple leaves, and the palace made of white jade are really wonderful.

Yan Funing walked forward along the royal post road, the huge trees on both sides of the road are towering, and the whole avenue is like a green "tunnel". There are forests, rivers, and lawns on both sides of the trees, and there are thousands of green fields, which are quiet and leisurely.

Yan Funing walked unhurriedly to the edge of Jiuqu Lake, and then walked west along the south shore of Jiuqu Lake until he saw the memorial fountain of Princess Diana. The fountain has a very special shape, it is actually an undulating circular canal, which looks like a string of necklaces lying on the green field.

Yan Funing easily found Li Jiting wearing a peaked hat and holding a drawing board and sitting on a bench by the lake to concentrate on painting, Yan Funing saw Li Jiting facing the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, so he thought he was painting the fountain and the swans swimming in Jiuqu Lake.

However, when Yan Funing got closer, this was not the case at all, and Li Jiting drew a group of dinosaurs running on the lawn with charcoal on the drawing board. Yan Funing had no interest in this disappeared species at all, except for the long-necked dragon and the Tyrannosaurus rex, he didn't know anything else.

If Cheng Mo was here, he would have recognized that Li Jiting was not actually painting a long-necked dragon and a Tyrannosaurus rex, but an Allosaurus and an ostrich-like dragon, Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex looked very similar, but in fact they were not a dinosaur, and the same ostrich-like and velociraptor were not a dinosaur at all.

Yan Funing didn't bother Li Jiting to paint, even if he wasn't interested in dinosaurs at all, he stood behind Li Jiting, pretending to watch it with relish, until Li Jiting finished painting the whole painting, looked up and asked, "Have you watched "Jurassic World 2"?"

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

Li Jiting smiled, "Actually, I really like to watch this kind of science fiction movie..... Not long ago, the largest fossilized dinosaur footprint with a history of 170 million years was discovered in the Scottish lagoon, and I went to the Natural History Museum of Oxford University a few days ago to have a look...."

Li Jiting closed his eyes, raised his head slightly, and said softly with a look of longing: "Now imagine that 180 million years ago, this land was once a paradise for dinosaurs.....

"Weak mammals like us had to hide in the Mesozoic Era, when predators and reptiles dominated us, in order to avoid becoming food. Even compared to mammals, dinosaurs were so stupid. For example, the brain capacity of Tyrannosaurus rex was about 200 cubic centimeters, that of sauropods was 150 cubic centimeters, that of triceratops was 20 cubic centimeters, that of Diplodocus was 50 cubic centimeters, and that of Stegosaurus was 30 cubic centimeters. In terms of the absolute weight of the brain, none of them can come close to the size of the chimpanzee brain. A 2-ton stegosaurus was perhaps much more stupid than a rabbit. If you take into account the huge weight of dinosaurs, dinosaurs have pitifully small brains. The Tyrannosaurus rex weighed 8 tons, the diplodocus weighed 12 tons, and the sauropod dinosaur weighed 87 tons. In terms of brain weight to weight ratio, sauropods had a ratio that was 10,000 times smaller than that of humans. Just like the shark, it has the largest brain mass of any fish in terms of its weight. Carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex had larger brains than herbivorous dinosaurs like Diplodocus and sauropods. We are convinced that the Tyrannosaurus rex was an efficient murderous machine, and without its terrifying aspects, the dinosaurs were extremely intellectually weak and incompetent compared to the clever and incompromising opponents of the primitive mammals. ”

"But no matter what the IQ of the dinosaur is, this does not affect its status at all, it is still the hegemon of the world, firmly occupying the top of the food chain, if it is not for their extinction, the ancestors of human beings have no possibility of coming down from the tree at all, once the number is down, it can only become food or be trampled to death by huge dinosaurs, so for up to 50 million years, our ancestors, there is no evolution at all....."

Li Jiting opened his eyes, lowered his head and pointed at the Allosaurus on the drawing board with the charcoal pen in his hand and said, "And the dinosaurs are constantly evolving..... This is the Jurassic period of the highest IQ of large carnivorous dinosaurs, Allosaurus is the highest Jurassic IQ animal, although the Tyrannosaurus rex is huge, everywhere you go are frightened, but the Tyrannosaurus rex has poor eyesight, flexibility is not as good as Allosaurus. This animal is very treacherous, not only knows how to divide labor and cooperate, team fighting, but also is very good at hiding and sneak attacking, and often goes up to participate in other animals when they fight. In the Jurassic era, there was also a carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex that was three times larger than the Itsaurus, and the Itsaurus still dared to come forward and shout..... If the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, Allosaurus might have evolved into the world's most terrifying killing machine......"

Then Li Jiting pointed to the ostrich-like dragon on the drawing board and said: "If you judge according to the ratio of brain weight to weight, the most intelligent dinosaur should be the camel-like dragon." The typical brain weight-to-weight ratio is about 50 grams to 50,000 grams...... This dinosaur is very similar to an ostrich, so it is called an ostrich. Examining their large number of fossilized inner models of skulls may be instructive. They may hunt small animals for food, use the four fingers of their hand-like appendages for a variety of tasks, and use their claws to grasp branches in order to feed..... This is incredible...."

Yan Funing stared at the ostrich on the drawing board, its claws were long and thick, hanging like human hands, growing under the ostrich-like dinosaur, it was too abrupt, but what made Yan Funing even more strange was why Li Jiting suddenly told him this, but he didn't ask why, just listened quietly.

"Dinosaurs are interesting animals worth studying, if the dinosaurs had not mysteriously become completely extinct about 65 million years ago, could the camel-like have evolved into more and more intelligent life forms? Could they have learned to hunt large mammals en masse, 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 Earth today be the descendants of the camel-like dragon? Reading a book, or speculating on what would happen if mammals were to prevail, and would this dominant life form think that eight cardinal numbers were perfectly in line with natural arithmetic, and that ten cardinal numbers were just an unnecessary decoration in the teaching of new mathematics?"

At this time, Yan Funing shook his head, "I think under the definition of evolution, they won't, because the evolution direction of dinosaurs is bigger, stronger and faster, and it develops in the direction of the body, while the evolution direction of our human beings is to give up the advantages of the body and develop towards the advantages of the brain...... It can be said that dinosaurs evolved in the opposite direction of our human evolution....."

Li Jiting looked at Yan Funing and smiled, and said meaningfully: "Regardless of whether the ostriches have the opportunity to evolve their intelligence, 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 diverted by the extinction of the dinosaurs. If the dinosaurs had not gone extinct, humans would not have been born, and we are puzzled as to why the dinosaurs, the overlords of the earth, suddenly disappeared, although there are now dozens of scientific hypotheses that attempt to explain this rather prominent and grim event for terrestrial and aquatic life forms. But none of the explanations are perfect. These explanations, ranging from drastic climate changes to mammalian predation, to the extinction of laxative-effective plants that led to the constipation and death of dinosaurs, to the planetary impact on the Earth proposed in the eighties, are all hypotheses because there are loopholes in either theory. Take the 'planetary impact' theory as an example, it has the following flaws: First, if the 'planetary impact' theory is true, then the dinosaurs quickly became extinct in a short period of time. However, in recent years, a growing number of experts believe that the extinction of dinosaurs was a relatively long process. Second, can the silicate dust caused by planetary impacts remain in the atmosphere for a short period of time, only a few months, and cause a large-scale extinction of life?"

After a pause, Li Jiting said lightly: "But no matter which hypothesis is good, countless evidence can prove that there must have been some unknown great change 65 million years ago that caused the earth overlord to quickly come to the end of the road, and it was not a slow process of boiling a frog in warm water, but it was not so fast that it disappeared overnight......"

Li Jiting stood up from the bench, took down the sketch paper with a group of dinosaurs on the drawing board, and handed it to Yan Funing, "Give it to you..... In a book that was not published, the description of the origin of mammals is linked to the marvelous legend of the Genesis myth of Adam being driven out of the Garden of Eden in the age of dinosaurs. In the book, he divides the human brain into three parts, in fact, he is a little earlier than Paul McLean's hypothesis of the 'trinity of the brain' (note 1), I think you should know that the three brains are: the reptilian brain, the lactation brain, and the cortical brain, and it is precisely because of the development of the reptilian brain that human beings can endow Adam and Eve with the knowledge of good and evil—the new cortical function of abstraction and morality...... Remember who tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit?"

"It's Satan who has become a reptile....."

Zhao Qingshan said

NOTE 1 - The Trinity of the Brain: Neurologist Paul McLean hypothesized that there were not just one, but three brains in the human cranial cavity. These three brains, as the product of different stages of human evolution, are successively overlaid on top of the existing brain layers in the order in which they appear, and like archaeological sites, Paul calls them "the trinity of the human brain". McLean, who now director of the Brain Evolution and Behavior Lab in Poolsway, Maryland, said the three brains operate like "three interconnected biological computers, each with its own intelligence, subjectivity, sense of time and space, and memory." He called the three brains neocortex or neomammalian brain, limbic or paleomammalian brain, and reptilian brain, the brainstem and cerebellum. Each brain is connected to the other two by nerves, but each operates as a separate system, each performing its own role.