Brains R Us

This is Good News For Some of Us

Forget about all those big-brained descendants of ours in all those olf skiffy stories.


Any woman trying to give birth to one of them would die. But the Cult of the Cerebral imagined that "evolution" would move us to bigger and bigger brains because, well, brain is mind, right?

But now it seems that the modern brain is about 10% smaller than it was 10,000 years ago. That means either that a) brain size has no relationship to intelligence or b) we ain't as s...