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Highbrow Highjinks Come to an End

Posted by Hemos on from the scopes-comes-around dept.

nickynicky9doors writes "The Sidney Morning Herald has an article debunking the long standing theory of our specie's dominance based on a proportionally greater development of the frontal lobe. MRI scanning suggest... 'proportionately, there is no major difference in the relative size of the frontal cortex among humans and their closest relatives.'"

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  1. Re:Language by Nf1nk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I forget his name, but there was a 19th century french philospher who said that the apes remained mute to avoid being put to work.

    does this show that he was right?

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  2. Sidney ? by ChrisGuest · · Score: 2, Funny

    what kind of cortex development, caused this typo.