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Scientists have discovered a mutation that increases the production of brain cells and seems to have set our ancestors apart from other hominins.
Molecular anthropologist Christina Warinner, graduate student James Fellows Yates, and a large international team looked at the oral bacteria stuck to the teeth of Neanderthals and preagriculture modern humans that lived more than 10,000 years ago.
Brain sex differences are tiny and swamped by the much greater variance in individuals’ brain measures across the population. And the same is true for most behavioral measures.
Some kinds of storytelling may be "too cold" for children, while others are "too hot." And, of course, some are "just right."
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