March
02
/ 2021
Two researchers from the archaeological department at Israel’s Tel Aviv University have come up with an all-inclusive theory to explain the physiological and historical development of human brain development. Paleoanthropologist Miki Ben-Dor and prehistoric archaeologist Ran Barkai assert that changes in human food collecting practices, and the environmental changes that precipitated them, played a major determining role of the gradual evolution of human brain development resulting in advanced cognitive abilities, endowed with enough self-awareness and analytical insight to reflect on its own capacities and origin. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"83793","attributes":{"alt":"This figure shows that most big prey animals were heavy and slow and thus easy for humans to hunt. When big mammals went extinct, human brain development accelerated so that we could easily hunt smaller
