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Growth in brain volume is one of the most spectacular changes in the hominidlineage. The anthropological community agrees on that point. No consensus,however, has been reached on selection pressures contributing to that growth.In that respect Martin (1984) can be invoked. In his review of sizerelationships among primates he stated that despite the relationship betweenbrain size, body size and feeding behavior no single interpretation could beprovided that revealed the causality of such relationship.  This paper deals with one specific aspect of hominid brain growth; the factthat for most of the hominid period, growth in brain volume was exponential incharacter. To the best of our knowledge, no attempt has been made to identify aselection mechanism that can facilitate just the exponential features of thatgrowth (as distinct from any of its other characteristics). It is broadlyaccepted that the dynamics of this growth were peculiar. Growth was very fast,or even rapid in the evolutionary scale of time. The most profound evidence ofthat opinion was expressed by Haldane that this dramatic increase in brain sizewas the most rapid evolutionary change known to him.

Lack of water and endurance running could have caused the exponential growth in human brain: Point of no return model