(February 22, 2017 at 3:04 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: We're the only species in the Homo genus. Is it possible this could change? Have we shown signs of continuing evolution or have we reached a plateau?
Actually our brains have been shrinking since the stone age.
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-...-shrinking
Quote:numbers: Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimeters to 1,350 cc, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball. The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion. “I’d call that major downsizing in an evolutionary eyeblink,” he says. “This happened in China, Europe, Africa—everywhere we look.” If our brain keeps dwindling at that rate over the next 20,000 years, it will start to approach the size of that found in Homo erectus, a relative that lived half a million years ago and had a brain volume of only 1,100
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