size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution. Measuring brain size...
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within species or between fairly closely related species. Brain size usually increases with body size in animals (i.e. large animals usually have larger brains...
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that are covered in the human brain article are brain disease and the effects of brain damage. The shape and size of the brain varies greatly between species...
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Neuroscience and intelligence (redirect from Human intelligence and brain size)
living brain structure and function (using fMRI) made this the pre-dominant and preferred method for measuring brain volume. Overall, larger brain size and...
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Neuroscience of sex differences (redirect from Sex differences in brain size)
"The human brain shows highly reproducible sex differences in regional brain anatomy above and beyond sex differences in overall brain size" and that these...
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Encephalization quotient (redirect from Relative brain size)
is a relative brain size measure that is defined as the ratio between observed and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size, based on nonlinear...
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adaptations across other taxonomic classes. Brain to body size scales allometrically. This means as body size changes, so do other physiological, anatomical...
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Dinosaur (redirect from Dinosaur brain size)
body sizes, and that brain size in dinosaurs was not smaller than expected when compared to living reptiles. Later research showed that relative brain size...
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Elephant cognition (redirect from The Elephant Brain)
50. Humans have an EQ of 7.44. Comparing brain size at birth to the size of a fully developed adult's brain is one way to estimate how much an animal...
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The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum...
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and females including size and strength, bodily proportions, hair distribution, breast differentiation, voice pitch, and brain size and structure. The human...
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Archaic humans (section Brain size expansion)
Neanderthals), and anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Most archaic humans had a brain size averaging 1,200 to 1,400 cubic centimeters, which overlaps with the range...
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Homininae (section Brain size evolution)
the human brain shows that the brain of a human is about more than four times the size of great apes and 20 times larger than the brain size of old world...
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Sexual dimorphism (redirect from Sexual size dimorphism index)
percentage of gray matter appears to be more related to brain size than it is to sex. Differences in brain physiology between sexes do not necessarily relate...
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Cetacean intelligence (redirect from Dolphin brain)
brain size. Since most of the brain is used for maintaining bodily functions, greater ratios of brain to body mass may increase the amount of brain mass...
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The ten percent of the brain myth or 90% of the brain myth states that humans generally use only one-tenth (or some other small fraction) of their brains...
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Cat intelligence (section Brain size)
causal relationship between brain size and intelligence in vertebrates. Most experiments involving the relevance of brain size to intelligence hinge on the...
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The hindbrain connects the rest of the brain to the spinal cord. The size and structure of the avian brain enables prominent behaviours of birds such...
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ago, the hominin brain began to develop rapidly in both size and differentiation of function. There has been a gradual increase in brain volume as humans...
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species' brain size certainly exceeds that of ancestor species, capacity varied widely depending on the population. In earlier populations, brain development...
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Homo floresiensis (section Brain)
floresiensis. In addition to a small body size, H. floresiensis had a remarkably small brain size. LB1's brain is estimated to have had a volume of 380 cm3...
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Aegyptopithecus (section Brain size)
zeuxis is thought to have been sexually dimorphic. Tooth size, craniofacial morphology, brain size, and body mass all indicate this. Due to A. zeuxis being...
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Law deleted; they do not have to protect themselves from harm, and the brain size can be reduced by half.[citation needed] Robots that do not require orders...
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found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results...
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Island syndrome (section Brain size)
Zealand alongside Richard Owen. Moa exhibited insular gigantism, small brain size and complete loss of wings including the stylopod element. The southern...
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Race and intelligence (section Brain size)
"Intelligence and brain size in 100 postmortem brains: sex, lateralization and age factors". Brain. 129 (2): 386–398. doi:10.1093/brain/awh696. PMID 16339797...
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corpus callosum. The size, amount of myelination, and density of the fibers in the subregions relate to the functions of the brain regions they connect...
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former has received wide support. Like contemporary Homo, H. habilis brain size generally varied from 500–900 cm3 (31–55 cu in). The body proportions...
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sites for early humans, to reflect data indicating its role in human brain size and evolution. Olduvai domains form the core of NBPF genes, which first...
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History of anthropometry (section Race and brain size)
cranium size (measured in various ways) and intelligence as measured by IQ tests, although it is a weak correlation at about 0.2. Today, brain volume as...
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