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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 (piefed.social)

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

god damn austerity, we can't have shit these days, even our brains have to meet efficiency quotas and "rationalization".

[–] nehal3m@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shrinkflation!