Why are our brains shrinking?
Because we are being domesticated. Domesticated animals are all dumber than their wild counterparts. Every wild animal that ends up being domesticated ends up with a smaller brain. I should rephrase and maybe say that this doesn't necessarily mean the animals get dumber but they definitely change in the process of domestication and a smaller brain is one of those adaptations. [1]<p>> The reduced amount of white matter suggests that domestic rabbits have a compromised information processing possibly explaining why they are more slow reacting and phlegmatic than their wild counterparts.<p>1: <a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-06-differences-brain-morphology-wild-domestic.html" rel="nofollow">https://phys.org/news/2018-06-differences-brain-morphology-w...</a>