Gary wrote:
>>http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/hb/hb-interview1a.shtml
> 1. This is not very strong relationship and nowhere proven.
>
> 2. There are many things that may have contributed to increased relative
> brain size, and brain size is not directly related to brain effectiveness.

Brain size is related to the amount of information you can store.
Humans are not much more intelligent than chimpanzes but can store
considerably more information. Humans are walking expert systems.

>We all believe what we want to believe, giving stronger weight to that which
>we already agree with, and less weight to that which does not match our
>current belief system.  It has to be real strong evidence to cause a
>paradigm shift, I think.  This is not real strong evidence above.

For me it is. I haven't found a better researched work than that
of Ward Nicholson cited above.

Regards,

Stefan