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Bigger Brains, Smaller Faces: Rethinking Human Evolution

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study challenges established views on human skull evolution. Researchers suggest that brain growth and the reduction of the face and jaw may be less influenced by directed natural selection than previously thought. Findings from the University of…

Challenging directed natural selection as the driver of brain expansion quietly opens space to ask whether environmental or cultural pressures — including those from a now-lost social context — shaped human cognitive architecture in ways we haven't accoun
Bigger Brains, Smaller Faces: Rethinking Human Evolution
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