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Makes sense. Back then every day was survival and we had to think our way out of a lot of situations, just to live for one more day. Nowadays we wait for our government to feed and cloth us.
Allow me to read the article for you:
This is just an educated guess. No one really knows why it happened. All we have is a handful of fossilized skulls to base this on.
While I'll take their educated guess over my own musings, that doesn't mean they're absolutely correct. No one knows for certain.
Oh, so you've heard of this thing called "science" before?
We can get some idea of what their brains looked like based upon imprints left on the inside of the skull. We can get an idea of relative intelligence based on artifacts, like tools and art. If you know that cranial volume dropped, but you can see imprints indicating more folds, and you can see cave art indicating more sophisticated culture, and more advanced tools, then you know with reasonable certainly that you're looking at a more intelligent creature despite the smaller brain.
Just a FYI, brain size is not a marker for intelegence or neral activity, the amount of connections is however.
Y'all have a govt feeding and clothing y'all? Mine is just trying to kill me in 100 different ways.
Fuck man, I wish I had thought of a way out of reading this dumb comment, my brain can't afford to shrink any further.
You live a different life than I do...
Must be in a military some where.
You’re free to live in a cave and fight bears everyday or whatever, if you feel that is your calling.
Density of connections matters more than size...
Shrinking and getting wrinkled creates more surface area, like how a shoreline will keep increasing in length the more accurate you measure it. A straight line is as short as it can be, but as you adust for smaller and smaller differences it will keep increasing until you're measuring every grain of sand and your measurement is 10,000x the straight line.
Humane also created and operate this government. Someone somewhere is always doing the work.
Nah, today's world is quite complex
It is complex, but the brain is stimulated to grow far more by the cacophony of the natural world than it is by the bare, low bitrate information we get from the world most inside people live through.
The modern world caters to consciousness, which can process about 120 bits of information a second. The natural world caters to the body's sensory complex, which takes in a billion bits a second, and when you count all the information created by first-order processing, it's closer to 11 billion bits a second.
A nervous system grows as a direct reaction to stimulus. More stimulus means more growth.
Do you have a single source? Or are you just talking out your ass?
These are really well studied and basic facts. I was being gracious giving consciousness 120 bits. That's the absolute limit any measurement has ever even theorized.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior
But your still speaking out of your ass. Cause your brain grow thing is total ....
Lol wait wait wait, are y'all calling the fact that the nervous system grows as a direct response to stimulus, and neurons seek out new information sources to process, "talking out my ass"?!🤣🤣🤣
Look, don't come asking for discussions on things you have less than a middle school education on. If you're genuinely interested, you'll have to learn the most basic of basic information yourself before we can talk about anything bigger.
JFC...Albert Einstein's brain was studied intensely, they found nothing different for any other brain. This is anal verbage.
Was that before or after we had the technology to map the human connectome and even the barest understanding of what all those connections could possibly amount to in a neural network?
Keep the responses coming though, it's like watching the kid who eats crayons gloat about their special brain that gets them in special classes, calling people dumb because they "talk stupid".
Edit: I'm sorry, I'm still dying over here at you trying to point out a postmortem brain examination from the decade before we decided to stop giving lobotomies and electroshock to cure mental problems, to bolster your opinion. So since you like images, I found you an image that shows scientists looking at Einstein's brain nearly a century ago and concluding "it look like brain"