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Dr. James Cole - Stone Tools & Cognition

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The Evolution of the Social Brain

The social brain is an idea put forward by Robin Dunbar that, you know, he explained that brain size increased due to a selective input from group size. And as gut shrink, releasing excess energy to somewhere in the body, and that we know we sort of mentioned before that seems to be channeled to the brain,. So with brain sizes increasing, we can model that group size might also increase.

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