Cutting edge training developed the human brain 80 000 years ago

Lund University ^ | June 20, 2011 | Unknown

[bigheadfred]

I think so. But that is probably why they went back to stone chipping. They can’t grow a light bulb that looks like a curly fry.

[worst-case scenario]

That’s probably because all the new evidence gathered in the past decade shows that the brain itself changes physically in response to training. It’s much more plastic than believed for most of the 20th Century. The brain has the innate ability to develop the skills, but it must be trained in order for those skills to emerge.

[colorado tanker]

looking like us anatomically but not thinking the way we do today

Some of them are still around.

[SunkenCiv]

There’s a topic or two about that. :’)