Thread: The blatantly false liberal mantra "Races differ ONLY in skin color"

Originally Posted by mikemikev

Do you really deny that there is any relationship between brain size and intelligence?

I am saying that it is far less important within any species than you seem to think it is in humans.

I remember reading somewhere that Einstein's brain was a bit on the light end of the normal range of weights.

Originally Posted by leftysergeant

I am saying that it is far less important within any species than you seem to think it is in humans.

I remember reading somewhere that Einstein's brain was a bit on the light end of the normal range of weights.

I know you are saying that. And you are making it up.

Einstein was less intelligent than Maxwell, Lorentz and Poincare.

In fact the brilliance of Einstein is largely a myth.

Originally Posted by mikemikev

Do you really deny that there is any relationship between brain size and intelligence?

Did you know this was used as an excuse in Victorian times to argue women are naturally less intelligent than men?

It's not brain size perse, as it is relative brain size. And even that's deceptive. For instance, as I understand it, most of our large frontal lobe structure has nothing to do with intelligence per se; it's dedicated to the one thing human's excel at: abstraction and imagination. That co evolved with advanced tool use.

Other hunting species may have a broad cranial structure for similar reasons: you have to imagine what the prey might do to anticipate it's moves.

Anyway, brain size by itself and without qualification paints too simplistic a picture.

Originally Posted by l4zarus

Did you know this was used as an excuse in Victorian times to argue women are naturally less intelligent than men?

It's not brain size perse, as it is relative brain size. And even that's deceptive. For instance, as I understand it, most of our large frontal lobe structure has nothing to do with intelligence per se; it's dedicated to the one thing human's excel at: abstraction and imagination. That co evolved with advanced tool use.

Other hunting species may have a broad cranial structure for similar reasons: you have to imagine what the prey might do to anticipate it's moves.

Anyway, brain size by itself and without qualification paints too simplistic a picture.

Yes, I agree with you.