nehal3m comments on TIL The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago

TIL The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago (piefed.social)

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The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time | BBC |18 May 2024
Human brains have shrunk: the questions are when and why | Front. Ecol. Evol., 22 June 2023

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[–] nehal3m@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Eventually rationalization will become impossible and we’ll get our big brains back. And then it’s austerity again. Ad infinitum.

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