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...evolved from Homo erectus, a primitive branch of humanity whose line was thought to have been entirely supplanted by modern humans about 250,000 years ago. And while the general trend in human evolution over the past 7 million years or so has been toward larger bodies and larger brains, H. floresiensis went the other way: not only was its body small but, again unlike Pygmy or midget H. sapiens, its brain was only about the size of a grapefruit--smaller than that of a chimpanzee. "To think," says Nature senior editor Henry Gee, "that these creatures were evolving...
...even more obvious when you consider the Hobbit's diminutive size. The creature clearly wasn't an ape. It resembled the famous Lucy in stature and brain size, but the shape of the skull is very different; besides, Lucy is more than 3 million years older. The tiny brain also rules out the theory that this was a type of Pygmy, midget or dwarf, whose brains are all comparable in scale to those of full-size adults. But evolution does provide an explanation, known to biologists as the Island Rule: when isolated on small islands in the absence...
...those warnings about the power of collective irrationally—and the “disappearance of brain activity” that goes with it—seem like the quaint personality of a bygone...
This fall, Loker celebrated a new milestone in its history: it now houses a casual late-night grill, which is open to students. Loker Grill opens up at 10:30 when brain break ends, and stays open hours past midnight: the snack shop is now the most convenient place for Yard residents to find late-night mingling and freshly cooked food...
...course, concepts of God reside in the brain. They certainly don't reside in the toe," says Lindon Eaves, director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "The question is, To what is this wiring responsive? Why is it there...