Brain size is important for understanding intelligence but

Last updated: 12/12/2023

Brain size is important for understanding intelligence but there are several caveats that indicate that brain organization and learning experiences are more important than brain size alone For example check your answer in section 2 and 5 The Flores hominins had very small brains but still exhibited behaviors similar to larger brained Homo erectus used stone tools hunted and built fires Neanderthals had larger brains that most humans but did not appear to be consistently producing art like smaller brained modern human were all of these brain sizes within the same species do not appear to have any relevance to intelligence in those species brain size scales with body size