Contentious Hypothesis Posits Humans Brains Grew Larger as We Hunted Smaller Prey
STEPHANIE PAPPAS, LIVE SCIENCE
12 MARCH 2021
Over the course of the Pleistocene epoch, between 2.6 million years ago and 11,700 years ago, the brains of humans and their relatives grew.
Now, scientists from Tel Aviv University have a new hypothesis as to why: As the largest animals on the landscape disappeared, the scientists propose, human brains had to grow to enable the hunting of smaller, swifter prey.
This hypothesis argues that early humans specialized in taking down the largest animals, such as elephants, which would have provided ample fatty meals. When these animals numbers declined, humans with bigger brains, who presumably had more brainpower, were better at adapting and capturing smaller prey, which led to better survival for the brainiacs.
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Hastings water leaks: 116 in a month, and that s good!
12 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
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The number of water leaks called into council in the past year in Havelock North. Graphic / Aaron Bryan
The number of water leaks called into council in the past year in Havelock North. Graphic / Aaron Bryan
What s possibly more astonishing is that the year of leaks is not even unusual.
Hawke s Bay Today has taken numerous calls, particularly from Havelock North residents, over summer, concerned about water running down roadways from burst and leaky pipes.
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Senators call for steps to mainstream smaller provinces
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March 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The retiring legislators in the Senate Wednesday called for tangible mainstreaming of Balochistan and ensuring the smaller provinces had complete control of their natural resources.
They also vehemently advocated empowering the upper house of the Senate in line with the National Assembly and said presently the Senate was just like a ‘hujra’ and debating club, having no say in election of the prime minister, passage of the budget and legislation.
At his farewell, Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal said that there was a need to learn from the past and give the smaller provinces their due. He said that the distribution of resources should be on the basis of the area, as Balochistan was almost 50 per cent of total Pakistan, minus Kashmir, but it was not developed the way it should have been.
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An iris-recognition device is operated at Argus Soloutions August 11, 2005 in Sydney, Australia. The Australian Federal Government are considering including biometric data such as fingerprints, iris scans, or facial recognition on a national identity card in a bid to combat fraud, illegal immigration and terrorism. Details of individuals biometrics would be stored on the card in an algorithmic code to prevent identity theft.
According to Gizmodo s latest report, this pocket-sized, dolphin-themed hacking gadget can do malicious things. These include hacking access points and opening NFD (Network Function Disaggregation)-based locks of laptops and PCs.