Examples of social brain hypothesis in the following topics:
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- Although their brains were larger, Neanderthals had fewer social and technological innovations than humans, and they eventually died out.
- The Red Queen hypothesis states that species must constantly evolve in order to compete with co-evolving animals around them.
- The social brain hypothesis states that improving cognitive capabilities would allow hominins to influence local groups and control resources.
- The ability of the human brain to continue to grow after birth meant that social learning and language were possible.
- Modern humans have a brain volume of 1250 cm3.
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- The Hilly Flanks hypothesis, proposed by Robert Braidwood in 1948, suggests that agriculture began in the hilly flanks of the Taurus and Zagros mountains, where the climate was not drier, as Childe had believed, and that fertile land supported a variety of plants and animals amenable to domestication.
- Various social and economic factors helped drive the need for food.
- Food surpluses made possible the development of a social elite freed from labor, who dominated their communities and monopolized decision-making.
- There were deep social divisions and inequality between the sexes, with women’s status declining as men took on greater roles as leaders and warriors.
- Social class was determined by occupation, with farmers and craftsmen at the lower end, and priests and warriors at the higher.
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- Trephination was a primitive skull surgery used by the Nazca that relieved pressure on the brain from battle wounds or for ritual purposes.
- Several theories suggest skull manipulation created an ethnic identity, formed the individual into a social being, or may have illustrated social status.
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- The Renaissance of the 12th century was a highly productive time of social, political and economic transformations, and saw important artistic, technological, and scientific advancements.
- It included social, political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Western Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots.
- Under the tuition of Grosseteste and inspired by the writings of Arab alchemists who had preserved and built upon Aristotle's portrait of induction, Bacon described a repeating cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and the need for independent verification.
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- Some scholars have advanced the hypothesis that the nation state was an inadvertent byproduct of 15th-century intellectual discoveries in political economy, capitalism, mercantilism, political geography, and geography combined together with cartography and advances in map-making technologies.
- Nation states use the state as an instrument of national unity, in economic, social, and cultural life.
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- An alternative hypothesis posits that adoptive succession is thought to have arisen because of a lack of biological heirs.
- He is also known for his philanthropic rule, and oversaw extensive public building programs and implementing social welfare policies.
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- The three are similar both as outbursts of religious intolerance ending periods of relative tolerance and in their social and economic effects.
- In practice, the revocation caused France to suffer a kind of early brain drain, as it lost a large number of skilled craftsmen.