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Getting smarter through C-Sections (comment on this entry at LiveJournal)
Entry Date: 2004-08-21 14:20:00
Logged: 2004-08-21 14:24:20
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Apparently my dad isn't the only one to speculate about this possibility. Head size and birth weight both have strong positive correlations with IQ and with C-sections. We have all sorts of wacky adaptations (ie baby skullbones unfused) to let us pass more grey matter through that little birth canal. Have C-sections loosened this restriction, allowing megacephalic, smarter babies to be born? If so, what will the long-term evolutionary consequences be? Might we become a species that is born only by C-section?
Given the negative consequences of C-sections, I hope they invent the uterine replicator first.
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