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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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[–] Fawkes@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you engage in all discussions by misrepresenting the other side and jumping immediately to mockery?

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To mockery for sure. The minute I stop being able to look around myself and laugh at the thoughtless horrors and countless tribes who all believe they're righteous and welcoming yet all spit hate at anyone who doesn't chant their accepted manifesto I'll probably eat a shotgun.

[–] SageLilia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s some pretty mean things to say about people you don’t know on the internet. By your own words you are the one spitting hate here. Doing that is probably not helping you either in the long run. I hope life gets better for you. Trust me, you’re not the only one having a shitty day/week/life.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The spitting hate was referring to the tribalist nonsense of seeing anyone who doesn't quote their specific manual on how to act, what words to use, and how to use those words as evil monsters. I'm always going to make fun of people who get upset about a joke they don't approve of. That could probably be called dismissive, but not hateful.