Mar 13, 2013

Big Eyes = NO Survival

The BBC reports this morning on research showing we humans outlasted the the Neanderthals because their eyes needed to be too big in dark Europe.

The humans that stayed in Africa, on the other hand, continued to enjoy bright and beautiful days and so had no need for such an adaption. Instead, these people, our ancestors, evolved their frontal lobes, associated with higher-level thinking, before they spread across the globe.

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