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《新科学家》 第3591期 · 2026年4月18日 · 中文解读

小型猎物是否促进了大脑的进化?

Did small prey lead to big brains? · James Urquhart
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一项新研究发现,20万年前大型动物的减少可能迫使古人类放弃重型石器,转而使用轻型工具捕猎小型猎物,这可能推动了现代人类大脑的进化。
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The shift towards using lighter stone tools to hunt smaller prey may have driven the evolution of large brains in modern humans, discovers James Urquhart A DROP in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a new study that supports the idea that switching to smaller prey may have boosted our ancestors’ intelligence. For over a million years, several early human species used similar kinds of heavy stone tools, such as axes, cleavers, scrapers and stone balls. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3591期 · 2026年4月18日,James Urquhart。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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