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RE: Let's talk about how bigger brains come at a cost

in #stemng • 6 years ago

First of all, let me congratulate you for a well written post. You seemed to be making outright conclusion that bigger brains are mostly associated with disorders, aside from the guppies experiment, are there any other experiments that have been done to prove this?

What level of correlation exists between the two phenomena as far as human/mammals are concerned? It would really be nice to have these facts.

Thanks

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    Preserving the brains of geniuses was not a new phenomenon—another brain to be preserved and discussed in a similar manner was that of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss almost a hundred years earlier. His brain was studied by Rudolf Wagner who found its weight to be 1,492 grams and the cerebral area equal to 219,588 square millimeters.[27] Also found were highly developed convolutions, which was suggested as the explanation of his genius.[28] Other brains that were removed and studied include those of Vladimir Lenin,[29] the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya,[30] and the Native American Ishi. The brain of Edward H. Rulloff, a noted philologist and criminal, was removed after his death in 1871; in 1972, it was still the second largest brain on record.[31]Source

    If you read the last words there, "it was still the second largest in the world". These are real proves that geniuses have larger brains.

    And to your other question, primates have fewer offspring when compared to other lesser organisms. And humans have even fewer offspring. All these are proves that the bigger brains that humans have in general is the reason for our fewer offsprings. And geniuses, who are higher humans show mental disorders for the bigger brains they have in comparison to an average or smaller human brain.

    Thanks for coming around!!

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