size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution. Measuring brain size...
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within species or between fairly closely related species. Brain size usually increases with body size in animals (i.e. large animals usually have larger brains...
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that are covered in the human brain article are brain disease and the effects of brain damage. The shape and size of the brain varies greatly between species...
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Neuroscience and intelligence (redirect from Human intelligence and brain size)
living brain structure and function (using fMRI) made this the pre-dominant and preferred method for measuring brain volume. Overall, larger brain size and...
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Neuroscience of sex differences (redirect from Sex differences in brain size)
"the human brain shows highly reproducible sex differences in regional brain anatomy above and beyond sex differences in overall brain size" and that these...
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Encephalization quotient (redirect from Relative brain size)
is a relative brain size measure that is defined as the ratio between observed and predicted brain mass for an animal of a given size, based on nonlinear...
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adaptations across other taxonomic classes. Brain to body size scales allometrically. This means as body size changes, so do other physiological, anatomical...
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Dinosaur (redirect from Dinosaur brain size)
body sizes, and that brain size in dinosaurs was not smaller than expected when compared to living reptiles. Later research showed that relative brain size...
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Dunbar's number (redirect from The social brain hypothesis)
found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results...
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Elephant cognition (redirect from The Elephant Brain)
50. Humans have an EQ of 7.44. Comparing brain size at birth to the size of a fully developed adult's brain is one way to estimate how much an animal...
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