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> fact, Jared Diamond posited that we're actually a bit stupider Please don't enable this man when there are literally millions of trained historians you can t

• lproven 3y ago
  He isn't a historian, though. It does seem plausible. We are descended from Cro-magnon man; Neanderthals had bigger brains than us. https://www.archaeology.org/issues/103-1309/trenches/1138-neanderthals-brains-devoted-to-visual-processing https://www.archaeology.org/issues/103-1309/trenches/1138-ne... And we have smaller brains than our Cro-magnon ancestors. https://phys.org/news/2011-06-farming-blame-size-brains.html https://phys.org/news/2011-06-farming-blame-size-brains.html
  • breather 3y ago
    > He isn't a historian, though. Doesn't stop him from pushing his own grand narratives of history, apparently. The claim isn't particularly interesting given the nebulous and culture-bound definition of intelligence, but he's not a person I would tap into for a sense of expertise backed by consensus.