Posted: Nov 22, 2019 11:08 pm
Spearthrower wrote:
We don't know how complex the australopithecine world was, how rich their social interactions were, but even if there were more interesting ways they could use their minds, their brains could only manage a metabolic rate of synaptic activities at about half the rate of gorilla. That's pretty substantial.
I’m resisting making the obvious comment relating to “symbiosis.”