{"id":844,"date":"2007-01-25T23:07:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2007-01-25T23:07:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T21:07:59","slug":"size-can-be-hindering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"size can be hindering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img id=\"image843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2007\/01\/headAndBrain.JPG\" alt=\"headAndBrain.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Probably every body can think of one situation or another where this statement is in order and even if it comes to our <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2333189681837727477&#038;q=look+around+you\">brains<\/a> one easily finds moments where a big brain is debilitating.<br \/>\nAnd finally there is evidence that this is part of a bigger evolutionary picture: scientists recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news83410847.html\">found out in a simulation<\/a> why our brains have shrunk. One systematical flaw &#8211; especially for a simulation designed to run over several thousand generations of humans &#8211; is that they neglected females in their model (too complicated!).  (Still this analysis could explain our <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.impawards.com\/1996\/posters\/mars_attacks_ver1.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.impawards.com\/1996\/mars_attacks_ver1.html&#038;h=755&#038;w=507&#038;sz=148&#038;hl=de&#038;start=12&#038;tbnid=IhE-uMLsMtzvmM:&#038;tbnh=142&#038;tbnw=95&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dmars%2Battacks%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN\">poor performance<\/a> against the martians&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably every body can think of one situation or another where this statement is in order and even if it comes to our brains one easily finds moments where a big brain is debilitating. And finally there is evidence that this is part of a bigger evolutionary picture: scientists recently found out in a simulation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}