The shape, not size, of our ancestors' brains may have helped them

By comparing the brains of Neanderthals with an average human brain, researchers suggest that different ways of processing information may have helped our ancestors outcompete their hominid cousins.

Big Brains Gave Early Humans Huge Evolutionary Problems

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Shrinking Brains - Are We Dumbing Down?

Sensory Functions of the Skin in Primates by Yngve Zotterman

Stereotaxic Brain Atlas of the Egyptian Fruit Bat by Raya Eilam

Our ancestors' squishy skulls led to bulging brains

Many people have a little Neandertal in the brain

What is the leading hypothesis on why humans evolved such large

The Brain Size Of Our Ancestors

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Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains

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Information: The real weight of the brain inside the skull is 1200

Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better