Brian Villmoare In The News
IFL Science
The contention the human brain shrank sharply around 3,000 years ago, coinciding with the establishment of cities, has captured popular and scientific imagination, but new evidence suggests it never happened.
Europa Press
The 12th century BC, when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written text, did not coincide with an evolutionary reduction in brain size.
Vosvete
Last year's study was sharply criticized by a team of scientists from UNLV, who found many ambiguities in it.
Express
New research has demolished previous theories about evolution, as researchers find that human brains did not shrink 3,000 year ago.
Mental Daily
In previous research released in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, experts asserted that the human brain shrank amid a transition to modern urban societies nearly 3,000 years ago.