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by Deestan 5479 days ago
> The average human brain has shrunk by 20% in size since the last 10 000 years. Thats the size of a tennis ball, or the size of an australopithecus afarensis brain.

That sounds both crackpot and irrelevant. I suggest citing sources and elaborating how this has anything to do with the article.

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http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-...

But yeah, I don't see the number 10,000 or 20% and I don't see what that would have to do with increasing maths intake in Universities by devaluing degrees...

This article lists 10% brain volume decrease in 20,000 years among the modern humans.