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I seriously doubt it, honestly, since humans have anatomical limitations keeping their heads from getting bigger quickly. We have to be able to fit through the
by BriggyDwiggs42 1y ago
I seriously doubt it, honestly, since humans have anatomical limitations keeping their heads from getting bigger quickly. We have to be able to fit through the birth canal.
- tbrownaw 1y ago> We have to be able to fit through the birth canal. Or at least we used to, before the c-section was invented.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoIndeed, but it hasn’t been around for long enough. We might evolve into birth by c-section, if we assume that humans won’t alter themselves dramatically by technological means over hundreds of thousands of years.
- bcoates 1y agoPerfectly ordinary terrestrial mammals like elephants have much, much larger skulls at birth than humans, so it’s clearly a matter of tradeoffs not an absolute limit.
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoOh of course, but evolution has to work with what it’s got. Humans happened to fit a niche where they might benefit from more intelligence, elephants don’t seemingly fit such a niche.