Why Did Our Brains Start Shrinking? Here’s Why They Did Not. - Deepstash

Why Did Our Brains Start Shrinking? Here’s Why They Did Not.

The big question of course is, “Why is our evolution going in reverse?” The interdisciplinary research team, which included a biological anthropologist, a behavioral ecologist and an evolutionary neurobiologist, write in the study that their dating techniques do not “support hypotheses concerning brain size reduction as a by-product of body size reduction, a result of a shift to an agricultural diet, or a consequence of self-domestication.”

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The human brain shrank in size about 3,000 years ago. Scientists may have found an explanation by studying ants.

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