Monday, March 15, 2010

Devolution or evolution?

'Our brains are shrinking, according to scientists who have recreated a 28,000-year-old skull from remains found in France.
The French team, which claims to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human’s cranium, says it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.'


Interestingly, in a similar vein, language is clearly getting simpler and not more complex. This is a universal phenomenon and precisely the opposite of what would be expected in an evolutionary model.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1257678/Replica-big-skull-28-000-years-ago-suggests-human-brains-started-shrink.html#ixzz0i8xPDKnU

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