Sunday, December 31, 2006

Bigger is not necessarily better

Healy and Rowe's article on comparative brain sizes of different species undermines the general correlation of brain size to intelligence and also points out the insufficient metric for intelligence between different species, including the conventional notion of complex behavior. Indeed, how can intelligence be compared between different species with different evolutionary strategies, among which intelligence is only a component of some strategies? Read the article.

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