Konkvistador comments on Brain shrinkage in humans over past ~20 000 years - what did we lose? - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Dmytry 18 February 2012 10:17PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 February 2012 06:04:15PM *  5 points [-]

The notion that our brains just got more efficient and 'therefore' could shrink in size appears very shaky to me. This 'therefore' comes from fallacy of anthropomorphizing the evolution.

Up voted for taking evolution seriously when it tells us that it simply wants to maximize fitness and dosen't care about what we like.

I think you are right on our biases regarding this.