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- Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains-were-bigger-3000-years-ago 2 comments
- Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago; some people think current complex social systems with greater division of labour might prompt their brains to shrink, while one other possibility is that emergence of writing also had an effect. But smaller brain doesn't directly mean becoming stupider. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220503-why-human-brains-were-bigger-3000-years-ago 108 comments science
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- The mystery over why human brains have shrunk over time https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-the-human-brain-has-been-shrinking-and-no-one-quite-knows-why 1 comment
- The Guardian view on ChatGPT search: exploiting wishful thinking | Editorial | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/10/the-guardian-view-on-chatgpt-search-exploiting-wishful-thinking 0 comments
- Why power naps might be good for our health - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240126-why-power-naps-might-be-good-for-our-health 0 comments
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- Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-has-humanity-reached-peak-intelligence 415 comments
- “Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?” | The Science of Life https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/biol100/2018/03/20/why-are-our-brains-shrinking/ 188 comments
- Frontiers | When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.742639/full 66 comments
- Brain of a white-collar worker - The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61127-1/fulltext 49 comments
- Home - BBC Future http://bbc.com/future 23 comments
- Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/28/8/2959/4996558 3 comments
- Home - BBC Travel http://www.bbc.com/travel 3 comments
- Alphonse Bertillon and the Troubling Pursuit of Human Metrics | The MIT Press Reader https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-troubling-pursuit-of-human-metrics/ 0 comments
- Is phrenology the weirdest pseudoscience of them all? - BBC Reel https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p099tghy/is-phrenology-the-weirdest-pseudoscience-of-them-all- 0 comments
- British Library https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/where-did-writing-begin 0 comments
- The traits that make human beings unique - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150706-the-small-list-of-things-that-make-humans-unique 0 comments
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