WOTE’s (as-Fun-as-a-Fact-Can-Be) Fact of the Day*

Though they are not talked about much, humans had prehistoric ancestors called the Boskops. Their brains were much bigger than ours, and they may well have been smarter than we are. And it may have been their very intelligence that did them in. One hypothesis is that they were so thoughtful and peaceable that when we came along -- with our smaller brains, inconveniently wired through the limbic system, making us warlike and aggressive -- we simply wiped them out.

(As-Fun-as-a-Fact-Can-Be) Fact Courtesy of:

Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, by Gary Lynch & Richard Granger (by way of the Times)


* Sort of like Harper’s Index, but even more funner.