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...
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Quote: Stanley Garn on the evolution of brain size
Stanley Garn, writing in “Culture and the direction of human evolution” (1963: 222):
Small of the wild
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...
Who did what to whom
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…
Quote: Jerison on animal intelligence
Harry Jerison, famous researcher of brain sizes across classes and orders of animals, commented on the relation of “encephalization” to the intelligence of a...