• SootySootySoot [any]
    ·
    6 months ago

    In fairness. Humans did specifically massively increase brain and skull size to fit all our smarts in, no?

      • SSJ2Marx
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Genetic determinists think that a couple generations of PMC people marrying other PMC people will produce a new subspecies or some shit. Like bruv even ignoring how that's not really happening the way you think it is it takes a lot more than that.

    • HexBroke
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      deleted by creator

      • ped_xing [he/him]
        ·
        6 months ago

        Isn't there some evolutionary pressure, and it could be that it applies to primates in general and not just humans, for big-headedness? Like if big-headedness didn't help, then you could imagine two populations, A and B, where A has big heads and B doesn't. B loses fewer mothers during childbirth. Those mothers can then give birth more times, making B grow faster than A, so after enough time, we're all medium-head B-people. But somehow we ended up with me not being able to hold my head up in baby pictures. What gives?

        • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
          ·
          6 months ago

          Brain size does matter, but we also massively increased its efficiency during evolution and developed social 'tools' to utilize it better.