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<blockquote data-quote="SelfSim" data-source="post: 76848394" data-attributes="member: 354922"><p>Bunkum!:</p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.963568/full" target="_blank">Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis</a>, Villmoare and Grabowski, <em>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution</em>,<em> July 2022:</em></p><p>The notion of intelligence and social communication allowing <em>'these humans to develop as a team, caring for each other and for the young .. </em><strong><u><em>leading to larger brains</em> .. upward spirals, {etc}<em>'</em></u></strong>, is <u><strong>not</strong></u> founded on the available evidence:</p><p>The same rationale therefore applies for <u><em>the belief</em></u> in <em><u>increased</u></em> brain sizes, (therefore birth canal changes), over the last 300k years, (look at the data trend shown in the study), for which there is <em><u>no evidence</u>, </em>as follows:</p><p>This thread <em>was over,</em> following the non-evidence based claims (beliefs) in post #1 and the narrative of your website story-telling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SelfSim, post: 76848394, member: 354922"] Bunkum!: [URL='https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.963568/full']Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis[/URL], Villmoare and Grabowski, [I]Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution[/I],[I] July 2022:[/I] The notion of intelligence and social communication allowing [I]'these humans to develop as a team, caring for each other and for the young .. [/I][B][U][I]leading to larger brains[/I] .. upward spirals, {etc}[I]'[/I][/U][/B], is [U][B]not[/B][/U] founded on the available evidence: The same rationale therefore applies for [U][I]the belief[/I][/U] in [I][U]increased[/U][/I] brain sizes, (therefore birth canal changes), over the last 300k years, (look at the data trend shown in the study), for which there is [I][U]no evidence[/U], [/I]as follows: This thread [I]was over,[/I] following the non-evidence based claims (beliefs) in post #1 and the narrative of your website story-telling. [/QUOTE]
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