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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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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 个月前

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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god damn austerity, we can’t have shit these days, even our brains have to meet efficiency quotas and “rationalization”.
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  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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  Shrinkflation!

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