Brains

... I think Robin is wrong. I believe that these goals and features of human existence have emerged because we have significantly intelligent enough brains that are capable of “higher” functions. The original, direct adaptation was based on the fact that intelligence and opposable thumbs helps with ...

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... but the few conservative ones really worry me, because they aim to brainwash children before they even have learnt to think with their own brains.

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What environment???? We create our environment using our brains and opposable thumbs... Does it maybe mean a more natural environment like what hunter-gatherers would have had to deal with?

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... Dean Falk and her colleagues that disputes the possibility of microcephaly.[9] They compared the H. floresiensis brain to ten microcephalic brains, and revealed distinct differences that have so far gone unanswered by critics. In addition, a 2007 study of carpal bones of H. floresiensis ...

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... ourselves and our world since the days of comparative ignorance when today's religions were founded. We humans are what we are because of our brains, not our physical strength or speed or sensory acuity. We have survived and become dominant because we are good at figuring things out. Religions ...

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