Re: Large Brains Evolved For Social Competition
From: darth_versive (darth_versive_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/27/04
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Date: 27 Sep 2004 11:48:03 -0700
> > "Rich Travsky" <traRvEsky@hotMOVEmail.com> sees doggies in message
> > news:41297689.197BA98E@hotMOVEmail.com...
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> > http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/social_sciences/report-32083.html
> > Why did human ancestors evolve such large brains? While humans have an
> > unusual array of characteristics that distinguish us from other species, it
> > is our cognitive abilities and open-ended thinking that are most remarkable.
> > University of Missouri-Columbia researchers found that the ability to excel
> > at social problem solving led human brains to surpass other species in size,
> > developing ecological dominance 1.5 to 2 million years ago.
Yes. This seems like a reasonable hypothesis. Maybe it would be
useful to expand on this, and explore various ideas about just *how*
our cognitive abilities and open-ended thinking may have contributed
to the solving of various social problems, and just *how* this might
have led to our ancestors developing such ecological dominance.
I think that this line of discussion might prove to be more
interesting and productive than the one going on now in this thread.
DV
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