Monday 15 March 2021

Why Did the Human Brain Grow In Size?


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Joel Kontinen  

Evolutionists believe that ”over the course of the Pleistocene epoch, between 2.6 million years ago and 11,700 years ago, the brains of humans and their relatives grew“.

Why was this?

Scientists from Tel Aviv University have a new hypothesis as to why: As the largest animals on the landscape disappeared, the scientists propose, Human brains had to grow to enable the hunting of smaller, swifter prey.

However, However, not all scientist agree with the Israeli claim, John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who was not involved in the research and was skeptical of its conclusions. He says thar for instance homo florensis had smaller brain size, yet they, hunted big elephants.

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Source:

Pappas,Stephanie. 2021. What fueled humans' big brains? Controversial paper proposes new hypothesis. Live Science 5 March.