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

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Comment author: gwern 05 March 2012 06:32:52PM 1 point [-]

Such groups are also in the most marginal territories, that we haven't pushed them out of, like the !Kung. Any observed shrinkage might be environmental (eg. nutritional) compared to the old skulls we are looking at, from richer and more normal temperate areas.