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What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.
Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging.5 Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
In contrast, baby brains modify across vast territories.
David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
changes involves the brain: it often gets smaller, probably to save energy, because big brains are expensive to maintain.
Steve Brusatte • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
For the bulk of human history, the most learned members of our species have wildly underestimated the human brain’s capabilities. This is understandable, since your brain occupies only about 2 percent of your body mass, and it looks like a blob of gray gelatin. Ancient Egyptians deemed it a useless organ and tugged it out of dead pharaohs through
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