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Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Climate, Brain Evolution, and Extinction

This chapter explores the relationship between climate variability and brain evolution, examining how environmental changes over the past 65 million years may have influenced mammalian brain size and intelligence. The discussion also highlights the complexities of interpreting geological and climatological data and their implications for understanding the evolution of primates and human cognition.

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