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Shrinking Brains

So we have the paradox that over the period when our brain was growing most rapidly, our material cultural development, as measured by stone tools, advanced only marginally; then, over a million years later, when the culture of anatomically modern humans finally started to accelerate, artistically and technologically, our brains were actually getting smaller.

Look who was talking (via Arts Journal)

Posted by joh at 05:55 PM on August 12, 2003
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