Re: Big fat brain (Homo floresiensis)

From: Roger Bagula (tftn_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:43:27 GMT

Chimp brains are very much like human brains in their inefficient
use of the volume of neurons. So in this case more is better seem to
work. Even chimps trained with sign language don't test as well on
intelligence tests as humans after a certain age. I think they develop
faster to adult hood and have a shorter life span as well.
But among humans it appears the very smartest are not large in
most cases.
But among humans might has made right for a very long time so
that the biggest and strongest tend to lead and are thought to be
"smart". Any one who said they were dumb got a fat lip pretty quickly
and learned to keep it to themselves.
So in early civilizations that developed, those who handled weapons well
advanced and those who handled writing well mostly didn't.
I'm not saying that there aren't very smart tall people,
just that amoung smarter humans they are a minority
not the majority. I doubt that that has changed during the stone age to
the present.
To stay alive when the big guy is chasing you with a club , you had to
develop other skills that were based on more than strength.
I think that there is a reason "hid and go seek" is still a favorite
game amoung human children.
Mario Petrinovich wrote:

> Roger Bagula:
>
>>The idea that large men/large brains are more intelligent is a fallacy
>
>
> I agree with this. There were some experiments that showed that
> chimp kids are more intelligent than human kids (or something). Anyway, we
> don't think much (as much as I know humans). We just talk. IOW, we can
> produce environmnet which can enable evolution of ideas. The problem is that
> some of those ideas can be really stupid. See: "The Savanna Idea" Lol.
> -- Mario
>
> 

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