• Question: if a human had a large brain and another human had a small brain which would work better or doesn't it matter?

    Asked by to Joe, Juan, Kate, Rory, Rosie on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Rory Miles answered on 13 Mar 2014:


      I’m not a neuroscientist, but the size of a brain does not affect how it works. For example, Einstein was a very intelligent person, but his brain was a similar size to most peoples. As far as I know, scientists aren’t sure what effects peoples intelligence, but size most probably does not affect this.

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      Kate Salmon answered on 15 Mar 2014:


      Rory is right. Victorian scientists used to think that women were less intelligent because they had smaller brains but this is clearly not the case!

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