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148. New Genes | A Science Explainer with Dennis Venema
Language of God
The Evolution of the Human Brain
Our skull can only be so large because of our biology. We got to fit through a pelvic canal. So the way you get smarter with those constraints is you increase the surface area of what's inside by folding it. And if you're wondering if more folds in the brain actually lead to the kind of changes in intelligence that we're talking about, well, the mice did show some evidence of that.
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