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I agree but on the flip side it is interesting to consider what were the pressures and the timeline to bring us to where we are now. Great ape brains are disti
by sorokod 3y ago
I agree but on the flip side it is interesting to consider what were the pressures and the timeline to bring us to where we are now.
Great ape brains are distinguished from monkey brains by their larger frontal and cerebellar lobes. The Neanderthals had bigger brains than us but smaller cerebella. And, most strikingly, modern humans have much bigger cerebella than “anatomically modern” Cro-Magnon humans of only 50,000 years ago (but relatively smaller cerebral hemispheres!)