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Review of the Hobbit paper
Posted by Razib Khan on January 28, 2010
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Excellent one at A Primate of Modern Aspect: Okay, so we’ve got lots of increases in brain size, and a few decreases. In the cases where we have decreases, we usually have body size decreases as well. More often than not, we have body size decreases which result in a disproportionately large brain size, but…
Hobbits small brains not so anomolous
Posted by Razib Khan on January 27, 2010 Is the Hobbit’s Brain Unfeasibly Small?: Brain expansion began early in primate evolution and has occurred in all major groups, suggesting a strong selective advantage to increased brainpower in most primate lineages. Despite this overall trend, however, Mundy and his colleagues have identified several branches/lineages within each major group that have shown decreasing brain and…