solo@piefed.social to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month agoTIL The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years agomessage-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-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 · 1 month agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-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-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago Tattersall believes This is just an educated guess. No one really knows why it happened. All we have is a handful of fossilized skulls to base this on. While I’ll take their educated guess over my own musings, that doesn’t mean they’re absolutely correct. No one knows for certain.
This is just an educated guess. No one really knows why it happened. All we have is a handful of fossilized skulls to base this on.
While I’ll take their educated guess over my own musings, that doesn’t mean they’re absolutely correct. No one knows for certain.