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Hiel
11-03-2004, 08:39 AM
I've heard it said by some reputable persons that intelligence is influenced by the brain/body size ratio.

If this were true, then why:

#Are dwarves not bright

#Jockeys

#Small people (The converse tends to be true)

The brain/body size argument falls apart when it is understood that it is key regions of the brain that are responsible for body function, not the crerbral cortex. In fact, a larger human means a larger cerebral cortex.