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- From: hjcho@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Hae Jean Cho)
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- Subject: Re: Brain Size vs. intelligence
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.004836.5223@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 00:48:36 GMT
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- In article <Brt5ws.Mxw@zoo.toronto.edu> rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim
- Rising) writes:
- >Of course it is anecdotal so say things such as Einstein had a
- >relatively small brain, etc. This is not my area, but I believe
- >that their was a paper in a journal of physical anthropology
- >by L. VanVahlen and someone else that found a small, but
- >significant positive correlation between "brain size" and
- >"intelligence" (I have no idea how either was measured).
- >
- >Name: Jim Rising
- >Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
-
- I recently read that 19th century scientists originally claimed that
- brain size (mass?) was directly related to intelligence, until it was
- realized that then human beings would have to admit that blue whales
- were the most intelligent beings on earth. So then the criterion
- became brain mass per total body mass, but then they would have had to
- conclude that women are, in general, more intelligent than men. So
- the argument was largely abandoned....
-
- I do not recall the name of the original source. I read this in
- Gloria Steinem's book on self-esteem.
-
- J. Cho
-