How to pronounce “shrinking”(noun) in English

to the growth of our brains and the shrinking of our jaws and our gut, which happens about 1.8 million years ago,

This last argument was impossible to resolve, both in principle and in relation to the shrinking they had done to reduce a big part of the earth to three strides on a side.

So, do you see, perhaps, the shrinking of the role of religion in our life as a natural consequence of the expansion