This is a super-interesting paper on the high-costs of late increase of brain size in our ancestry.

The onset of symbolic culture and the strategies females needed to mitigate those costs are very likely linked.

#encephalization #femaleenergetics #cognition #symbolicculture

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262625000764

Please boost FREE community #fediscience!
LIVE and ZOOM, all welcome!

TONIGHT!!
Tues Jan 9, 6:30pm (London time) we start our Spring Term with #CamillaPower on
'Egalitarianism made us human. Why Graeber and Wengrow get it wrong'

LIVE
@UCLanthropology 2nd Floor Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton St. London WC1H 0BW

Everyone welcome to just turn up or join on ZOOM
Details
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/blog/egalitarianism-made-us-human-why-graeber-and-wengrow-get-it-wrong/

#egalitarianism #huntergatherers #DawnofEverything #intersubjectivity #language #encephalization #collectivechildcare