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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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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's a difference between acknowledging human population is collapse down to less than 20% its current size in the next century and possibly go extinct and saying we deserve to, we're stupid, and we should stop trying to make things better.

[–] blu3b3rryblue@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

Well humans are overly susceptible to greed and selfishness despite strong evidence proving its self-destructiveness, as we can see. We should definitely keep trying to change the dominant culture because that’s all we got left, but OP does have a point, isall I’m saying.