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adwnyesterday at 3:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

I thought we were way past the "bigger brain means more intelligence" stage of neuroscience?


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seba_dos1yesterday at 4:27 PM

Bigger brain does not automatically mean more intelligence, but we have reasons to suspect that homo neanderthalensis may have been more intelligent than contemporary homo sapiens other than bigger brains.

nomelyesterday at 4:19 PM

All data shows there's a moderate correlation.

dtechyesterday at 5:12 PM

You can't draw conclusions on individuals, but at a species level bigger brain, especially compared to body size, strongly correlates with intelligence

waffletoweryesterday at 4:24 PM

Even neuronal density is simplistic, and the dimension of size alone doesn't consider that.