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4 days agoDogs' brains began to shrink at least 5,000 years ago, study finds
Dogs' brains began to shrink at least 5,000 years ago, but this does not imply they are less intelligent than wolves.
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fromArs Technica
5 days agoNeanderthal brains measure up to ours-literally
The results suggest that there's more variation in brain size among modern people than between Neanderthals and Pleistocene Homo sapiens. And because brain size is actually a terrible way to predict cognitive capability, Neanderthals could have been a lot more like us than some previous studies have claimed.
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