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Anthropology

GeoWilliam750

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2. Interestingly, human cranial capacity has shrunk about 15% or so in the last 10-20,000 years

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Sun May 21, 2023, 12:40 AM

May 2023

Depending on whose text you would want to use, the average male Cro-Magnon skull had a capacity of about 1,600 cc or perhaps slightly more.

Modern man has a brain capacity of somewhere around 1,350-1,400.

Neanderthal was probably slightly larger than that of the modern human.

I have not heard a good explanation of why this might be.

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