The human brain has evolved quite a bit over time. It can be tricky to study the history of the brain as they’re not very well preserved so we don’t have any to look at. The first 2/3 of human history we had brains the size of apes today. But over 7 million years our brains have tripled in size! The increase in size helped increase in complexity as the brain developed special areas. A big brain doesn’t always make you smarter. Dogs today have brains 30% smaller than their wolf ancestors but dogs are always good at learning new tricks!
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