Public release date: 18-Feb-2006
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Contact: Stephen Cunnane
stephen.cunnane@usherbrooke.ca
819-821-1170
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

There's something fishy about human brain evolution
Forget the textbook story about tool use and language sparking the
dramatic evolutionary growth of the human brain. Instead, imagine
ancient hominid children chasing frogs. Not for fun, but for food.
According to Dr. Stephen Cunnane it was a rich and secure shore-based
diet that fuelled and provided the essential nutrients to make our
brains what they are today. Controversially, according to Dr. Cunnane
our initial brain boost didn't happen by adaptation, but by exaptation,
or chance.

RAGLANDMYCOOL@AOL.COM quoted:

This is an old hypothesis. There's a book about it, from 1991:

The Driving Force: Food, Evolution, and the Future -
by Michael Crawford, and David Marsh:

``Seafood is an excellent source of unsaturated fatty
acids, particularly the omega-3s. Crawford and Marsh
theorize that our brains developed along with our
increased body size because we had...