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

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

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More on this, here:

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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Just a FYI, brain size is not a marker for intelegence or neral activity, the amount of connections is however.
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