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A Change in The Development of Our Ovaries Could Have Led to Bigger Brains


The human brain may have steadily grown in size not because evolution plucked some big-brained ancestors out of the crowd, favoring their smarts over others, but because energy allocated to growing egg-laden ovarian follicles went to our heads instead.

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