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Asked by danisgreat to Fiona, Jane, Joanna, Michelle, William on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: General. This question was also asked by drlovemuffin, adamrussell, waleed, eggy169, kizzag.
Question: dose a bigger brain mean you are more intelligent
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William Davies answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Not necessarily – ‘intelligence’ is probably a combination of the number of neurons together with the way in which they are connected. However, every animals brain is perfectly adapted for what they need to do – for example, some birds spatial memories are probably as good as ours, so they can remember where they buried their worms
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Michelle Murphy answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Noone has found any links between brain size and intelligence – its what you do with what you got that counts 🙂
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Jane Henry answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Across species brain size related to the species size is an indicator of superior intelligence, eg humans having bigger brains than chimpanzees, dolphins have big brains. Within a species there is quite a lot of variation in brain size, and there are some very clever small people. Its the complexity of the connections in the brain that help. That said I believe Einstein had a big brain!
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Joanna Brooks answered on 17 Jun 2010:
Hello! We can research this by taking brain scans to look at the size of people’s brains and then see how that compares to their intelligence on a test for example. But I don’t think that there is any strong evidence for this – I have not come across any.
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