Hi Phil;

Probably in a comparison from species-to-species but if you are comparing 
size in a single species over time perhaps it is not such a direct 
relationship? Maybe, though it is a function over vast periods of time (tens 
or hundreds of thousands of years)?

Marilyn

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From: "Paleo Phil" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: Intelligence of Stone Age People, was Molecular Mimicry


> Marilyn Harris
>> To start with the purely anatomical view on intelligence, it must be
>> understood that intelligence is not a function of the size of the brain
>> or
>> the amount of neurons (nerve cells in the brain).
>
> Size must be somewhat of a factor (brain size relative to body size, that
> is), else how explain why human intelligence is greater than our
> smaller-brained primate cousins, and why human intelligence increased over
> the millennia as relative brain size increased? It's not the only factor, 
> of
> course, and I don't think anyone is making that argument.
>