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According to the scientific consensus, in the last 6 million years, the size of the human brain increased roughly three times in parallel with the appearance of various new, increasingly complex activities, and then reached its maximum 10-15 thousand years ago, which is considered yesterday in the evolutionary time scale.
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People who have taken on new African names talk about the mental emancipation it brings
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The organ's size has actually held steady over the past 300,000 years, according to new research that reassessed data on brain evolution.
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The contention the human brain shrank sharply around 3,000 years ago, coinciding with the establishment of cities, has captured popular and scientific imagination, but new evidence suggests it never happened.
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The 12th century BC, when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text, did not coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size.
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Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists has reproduced the feat at the lowest pressure ever recorded.
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Did the 12th century B.C.E. -- a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text -- coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size? Think again, says a UNLV-led team of researchers who refute a hypothesis that's growing increasingly popular among the science community.
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Last year's study was sharply criticized by a team of scientists from UNLV, who found many ambiguities in it.
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New research has demolished previous theories about evolution, as researchers find that human brains did not shrink 3,000 year ago.
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