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Something You Should Know

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We've Got These Really Big Brains

Big brains were probably first an adaptation to a really weird climatic period that we've been in for two million years which is the ice ages. Because we're tool makers we can make our own habitats because we conquered fire probably 800,000 years ago or more you know we can warm ourselves and so this brain which has grown three fold in size in those two million years is our way of navigating a very volatile cycle of climate.

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