Highbrow Highjinks Come to an End

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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Spina Bifida / Hydrocephalus Info

[cybrpnk]

Here's more than you ever want to know about spina bifida / hydrocephalus and how it generally affects those who have it - one of whom talks about it here. One study on IQ follow-up is here but it only says the expected problems result. My wife is a labor / delivery nurse and sees this pretty frequently, it's not pretty and just about always causes neurological damage....

Re:Oh for Cliff's Sake!

[Detritus]

Secondly, the so-called 'dominance' of our species is really self-evident in the way it's just our species that rapes the planet.

Elephants and goats can do a great job of destroying an ecosystem.