Does evolution always lead to bigger brains?

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:42 in Biology & Nature

The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps solve the mystery of whether Homo floresiensis - dubbed the Hobbit due to its diminutive stature - was a separate human species or a diseased individual...

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