Day: 15 May 2023

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The Cultural Brain Hypothesis: How culture drives brain expansion, sociality, and life history

Humans have extraordinarily large brains, which tripled in size in the last few million years. Other animals also experienced a significant, though smaller, increase in brain size. These increases are puzzling, because brain tissue is energetically expensive—a smaller brain is easier to maintain in terms of calories. Here we present …