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Originally Posted by DDTempest
There is actually heavy evidence to the contrary. Untrained domestic dogs are stupider and lazier than their wolf counterparts.
I was just reading a pretty interesting article on the average human brain actually decreasing in mass over the past 20,000 years.
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Brain size had peaked and decreased a little before we developed any technology more advanced than Acheulean handaxes, population density and the ability to specialise had a lot more to do with civilisation and high tech.
humans are very shitty creatures solo.
High population density triggers cultural explosions
“Scientists have offered many suggestions as to why these cultural explosions occurred where and when they did, including new mutations leading to better brains, advances in language, and expansions into new environments that required new technologies to survive. The problem is that none of these explanations can fully account for the appearance of modern human behaviour at different times in different places, or its temporary disappearance in sub-Saharan Africa.”