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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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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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[–] solo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No thanks.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You should. Because then you might learn and understand why your comment is so stupid and gets downvoted. But I guess you want humans to stay stupid, starting with yourself.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahh, Lemmy. Where if you don't read and bow at the altar of the manifesto of each one of the little cults you're an awful monster.