Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families
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Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families.
Hominid brain size increased dramatically in the face of apparently severe associated evolutionary costs. This suggests that increasing brain size must have provided some sort of counterbalancing adaptive benefit. Several recent studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have indicated that a substantial correlation (mean r = approximately 0.4) exists between brain size and general cognitiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.9.4932