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neanderthal extinction attributed to big eyes
Posted by:
Panchito
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Date: March 13, 2013 02:13PM [www.bbc.co.uk]
"The eyes have it: The Neanderthal skull (L) has larger eye sockets compared with a modern human skull (R). Consequently, the now extinct species used more of its brain to process visual information. A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. As a result, more of their brains were devoted to seeing in the long, dark nights in Europe, at the expense of high-level processing. By contrast, the larger frontal brain regions of Homo sapiens led to the fashioning of warmer clothes and the development larger social networks. " Re: neanderthal extinction attributed to big eyes
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: March 15, 2013 01:19PM Natural Selection, she's a harsh mistress.
Thanks; this explains a lot about their descendants. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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