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Largest animals have smaller brains than expected – Neuroscience News

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Resume: Researchers studied the brain and body sizes of 1,500 species and found that larger animals do not have proportionally larger brains, challenging long-held beliefs. The study reveals that the relationship between brain and body size is curved, not linear. This discovery helps explain why humans and other species deviate from the norm in the … Read more

Brain size myth debunked with new evolutionary insights

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A new study of 1,500 species shows that larger animals do not have proportionally larger brains, challenging old ideas and introducing a curve model for brain-body size relationships, with significant findings in primates, rodents and carnivores. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers have discovered that brain size in larger animals does not increase proportionally with body size, contradicting … Read more