Human brains might have evolved to be so big because of hunting
“There is evidence that large fauna was abundant when early humans evolved," anthropologist Miki Ben-Dor, who recently published a study in Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, told SYFY WIRE. "At some stage very large species were replaced by smaller (though still large) species with a decline in the richness of species. I believe that humans' preference for large prey was responsible for their demise.” There are other primates which are technically omnivores but spend most of their days hanging from trees and feeding. For humans, that was too much effort for too little energy, so the...
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