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		edgyquant on April 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone in the Kalahari Collected Crystals 105,000... Our biology is “virtually” identical but our brains are not. There is a reason why we distinguish between modern humans (who appear some time between 100,000 and 30,000ya) and archaic humans.

alcover on April 2, 2021 [–]

Naive question: How can we compare those brains beyond clues from cranial capacity and maybe supposed diet ?

wombatmobile on April 5, 2021 | [–]

Absolute differences in the variation between then and now are established by the "molecular clock" concept.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-molecular-cloc...

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