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

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 February 2012 03:51:33PM 0 points [-]

We are lacking a tennis-ball sized piece of our earlier brain (and it might even be God-shaped).

I'd bet against that. Civilizations seem to like gods.

Comment author: gwern 19 February 2012 05:06:32PM 2 points [-]

Too bad about the timing; if it were within the last 4000 years, then one could argue it's evidence for bicameralism.

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