Remember: we grew this great big brain just to do tribal politics. We grew general intelligence as a better way to do tribal politics. We discovered quantum mechanics and built a huge technological civilisation as side-effects of a mechanism to do tribal politics better. So I’d say that stuff is likely important to dealing effectively with other people, i.e., winning.
You’re sure the theory that the large brain is at least partly for precision throwing is wrong?
You’re sure the theory that the large brain is at least partly for precision throwing is wrong?
A very, very small ‘part’ perhaps. That sort of specialised behavior doesn’t particularly need a massive cortex.
If anything, that’s even worse news for nerds. It’d provide a handy evolutionary explanation for why basketball players tend to be popular, though.
Not sure in the least :-)