Human brain evolution looks gradual. If you ignore enough data…
Bernard Wood’s research group has a new paper on brain size evolution in hominins, led by Andrew Du in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: “Pattern a...
Bernard Wood’s research group has a new paper on brain size evolution in hominins, led by Andrew Du in Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: “Pattern a...
Stanley Garn, writing in “Culture and the direction of human evolution” (1963: 222):
Rod Bastanmehr at AlterNet writes: “Are Humans Inadvertently Helping Make Animals Smarter?” It’s a summary of work that shows larger brain sizes among wild a...
A confluence of stories, one from the New York Times fashion section, by Henry Alford: “A Web of Answers and Questions”, about Googling people you meet…
Harry Jerison, famous researcher of brain sizes across classes and orders of animals, commented on the relation of “encephalization” to the intelligence of a...