Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 09:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The English idiom “highbrow,” derived from a physical description of a skull barely able to contain the brain inside of it, comes from a long-held belief in the existence of a link between brain size and intelligence. For more than 200 years, scientists have looked for such an association. Begun using rough measures, such as […]

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