We’ve talked about why brains got bigger with time, but the Neanderthals stood out as an outlier and needed further research and explanation. We’ve also shown the benefits of larger heads in sports, but we […]
Category: Evolution
Eye Whites: A Big Human Advantage
Questions Answered: Why do babies need naps? Why do Chinese people have folds over their eyes? What is the evolutionary purpose of the whites of our eyes? Why do we squint? Do the eyes cool […]
The Case for the Slouch
It’s something that develops with time. We usually say it’s because you slump in front of a computer all day. Or you’re always hunched over at your desk. Essentially, we devolve based on our habits. […]
Size Matters: The Evolutionary Case for the Larger Nose
The race with the smallest skulls has the biggest noses. According to the rest of our theory, what does that mean? It means that the engine of the smaller brain gets hot more quickly, so […]
Untangling Facial Hair
How does facial hair fit into the theory? With our brain entropy theory, facial hair would be a way to heat up a brain that has gotten too cool. Women rarely have it. Women have […]
What about those skulls?
Don’t they prove evolution? Not exactly. They don’t prove that humans were once apes. They prove that humans once looked different. Let’s look at the brain as a computer. Except as our computer speeds get […]
We Evolve Faster
I’m not going to argue with Darwin, I think he had some very important ideas about how populations of animals change over time. What I think he, and so many others got wrong, is that […]
Evolution or Diversification?
I started reading Sapiens last week. I’m only one chapter in, and I need to interject. The first chapter gives an in-depth look at how different pre-human ancestors lived, and homo sapiens eventually ruled them […]