Re:The Modern Mind May Be 100k Years Old (2016)
by WalterBright on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:13PM
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> why did whatever selective process that resulted in our capacity for thought stop improving on it 100,000 years ago?
Some people have posited that it's because some fundamental biological limits were run into. (Our biology has already made many compromises to support the large brain, such as extended childhood, compromises in women's skeletal structure, the large energy consumption of the brain, etc.)
Some people have posited that it's because some fundamental biological limits were run into. (Our biology has already made many compromises to support the large brain, such as extended childhood, compromises in women's skeletal structure, the large energy consumption of the brain, etc.)