[Red Badger]

BEER?.............................

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!......................

[ConservaTexan]

Liberalism...

[Little Ray]

That was going to be my response!

[joshua c]

and liberalism was born

[Vaquero]

[z3n]

3000 years. I could believe it.

They call it the beginning of "collective intelligence". That's code for the distribution of responsibility away from individuals, or, idiocracy.

It's accelerating

[Olog-hai]

What could ants teach us about human brain evolution?

Nothing.

[marktwain]

Another hypothesis would be that agriculture and civilization allowed a larger number of smaller individuals to survive. Modern humans tend to increase in size if they have a better diet, especially in childhood.

[ifinnegan]

“Ant and human societies are very different and have taken different routes in social evolution,” Traniello said.

Tranny is clearly a great genius.

[Bubba_Leroy]

3,000 years from now, AI computers will be studying how human brains started shrinking to the size of squirrel brains after the invention of the interweb and social media.

[rightwingcrazy]

“The externalization of knowledge in human societies, thus needing less energy to store a lot of information as individuals, may have favored a decrease in brain size.”

In other words, if people no longer need to be smart to survive, duller ones are more likely to survive to mate, and people are more likely to choose their mates based on other qualities, such as physical beauty, social status, and brute strength.

[House Atreides]

Imagine the brain size decreases currently evolving with generation after generation being supported by welfare benefits.

[Pollster1]

Is the far-left winning because they depend on their hive minds.
All decent individuals are smarter than any one parasite, but as a collective they win?

“Resistance is futile”.

[Track9]

Someone realized sponging off of others was easier than innovation and hard work.

[Dave Wright]

The premise of this hypothesis is very intriguing. If evolution is responding to the externalization of brain computation we should see even further reduction in brain size going forward. Once AI reaches the point of agency we may become so dependent on it to drive our cars, manage our economy, and even generate our movies and music that we will no longer need the analytical parts of the brain and will only retain the sensory experience centers.

We will live in a reality of sensual pleasure produced by our AI driven infrastructure and our biological brains will shrink to the size of walnuts supplemented by Borg-like connections to the “hive”.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Red Badger :" “Most people are aware that humans have unusually large brains – significantly larger than predicted from our body size. "

Learning to do more , .. with less brain size
It's what Socialism teaches us !

[faithhopecharity]

beer goes back some 4500 years in Iran, etc.

the reason brains shrunk was the founding of the Demo party

[WMarshal]

To sum it up, civilization will eventually render the great mass of humanity into mindless drones.

[M Kehoe]

Beer, bacon and beans?

Pork, potatos and pudding?

Or Moore’s law?

Now I’m hungry.

5.56mm

[Jonty30]

Agriculture is what made our brains shrunk. When you can stay in one place and provide for yourself, you don’t need to remember topography or weather patterns like you do as a nomadic hunter.