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Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 November 2014 02:48:19AM 0 points [-]

Agriculture seems plausibly relevant here, but I'm confused by your comment about maternal mortality. The fact that it has always been a selective pressure issue means that it isn't plausible that it would be a cause for a decline in brain size unless maternal mortality somehow became worse.