• HexBroke
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    3 months ago

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    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      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]
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        6 months ago

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