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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 (slrpnk.net)
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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

I think the likely reason is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication