@Doug
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I can suggests some good books on the subject if you are really interested.

Sure. If youve got the time please do suggest, I'll read 'em. Im definitely interested in anything about the brain and brain evolution, or just evolution on the cellular level. Particularly the "how" on genetic mutation is of interest to me, though I dont know how much information you'll find on that because quite frankly evolution on a cellular level is pretty much either a)beyond our current understanding or b)non-existent.

There was a lot missing in the article you posted, but I did find it very interesting nevertheless. One of the things that interested me was the time of divergence. There seemed to be a period from 5800-7000 years ago which a certain change occured. As I said the change itself is still unclear to me, or how the conclusions were drawn were kind of omitted, but nevertheless the findings of ANY change in the human brain during that particular time frame would be interesting to me because as you probably know, the Bible places the emergence of Adam and Eve right about then. I believe that the Bible shows a great amount of evidence for previous human-like races(before Adam) and an old earth which would account for dinosaurs and all that but that is another thread. Suffice it to say that I find it an interesting coincidence that brain changes were found in humans starting at that time frame. The article doesnt give me much more to go on though.

@Phemox and others
Im reading a little before I reply, its been a while since the last evolution talk we had and I need to get things lined up in my head a little. I know what I want to say already, but I need to refresh some of the facts first.