Why do we have such big brains in the first place? I was glad in chapter one, you you discuss alfred russell wallace. And he also talked about culture as explaining so i'd be curious to know what your answer is to this long conundrumof why we have such large brains. Michael: My answer is that it's a combination of these. A, pre adaptations and and then is o wild climate.
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