Is brain size related to intelligence?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 8 July 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The idea that the larger the brain, the higher the intelligence is an old one, but it's pretty much utterly false. Modern investigation into how the brain works suggests there's a lot more to take into account when comparing brain biology to intellect.

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0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
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0:48.1	Yes, I think this might complete our brain.
0:51.4	We've had enough about that because we've done Einstein's brain, we've done difference
0:55.3	between men and women's brains.
0:57.8	And now we're tackling brain size which is sort of, it's on both of those a little bit.
1:03.5	It does.
1:04.5	But there's always new findings so far.
1:06.1	Yeah, that's what I'm saying there.
1:07.5	If there's ever an ongoing suite, it's got to be the brain man.
1:12.1	It's growing all the time.
1:13.1	It's changing shape, changing size, changing connections.
1:18.2	You could almost say that suite is plastic.
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