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Our biology is “virtually” identical but our brains are not. There is a reason why we distinguish between modern humans (who appear some time between 100,000 a
by edgyquant 6y ago
Our biology is “virtually” identical but our brains are not. There is a reason why we distinguish between modern humans (who appear some time between 100,000 and 30,000ya) and archaic humans.
- alcover 6y agoNaive question: How can we compare those brains beyond clues from cranial capacity and maybe supposed diet ?
- wombatmobile 6y agoAbsolute differences in the variation between then and now are established by the "molecular clock" concept. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-molecular-clock-and-estimating-species-divergence-41971/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-molecular-cloc...