solo@piefed.social to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agoTIL The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years agomessage-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up175file-text
arrow-up175message-squareTIL The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years agosolo@piefed.social to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
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
minus-squareCanaconda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoI bet it has to do with the development of spoken language. That had to have freed up some brainpower that was previously tasked with processing body language, smell, context, etc.
I bet it has to do with the development of spoken language. That had to have freed up some brainpower that was previously tasked with processing body language, smell, context, etc.