From Serendip
Brain Size and Evolution - Why care how big it was/is/can be? |
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Possible reasons
- Anthropocentrism: evidence for humans as the pinnacle of evolution, the human brain as the capstone of the pinnacle?
- Anthropocentrism/human curiousity: evidence establishing and explaining the uniqueness of humans?
- Human curiousity/anthropocentrism: evidence helping one understand who one is, how one got to be that way, what one can become?
- Human curiousity/neurobiology: how does the brain do what it does and how did it get that way?
- Human curiousity/brain evolution: how did the brain change over time and what caused those changes?
- Human curiousity/evolution: where does complexity come from? does complexity increase over evolutionary time? if so, why?
For any or all of the above reasons, let's see some relevant observations.
Skip it. I'm more interested in life on Mars?.