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Perhaps, he speculated, brain size is not everything.
"Absolute brain size is not the whole story," Can Kabadayi, a doctoral student in cognitive science at Lund University in Sweden and lead author of the study, says in a video (above) that the university released on Tuesday.
Despite their importance to our understanding of primate evolution, the relationship between sexual selection and the evolutionary development of brain size is not well studied.
When humans are excluded from the analysis, however, the effect of male competition on relative brain size is not significant (p = 0.060).
Another challenge facing young scientists is that information is increasing exponentially, but brain size is not.
In any case, non-Brownian evolution of brain size is not supported by either the λ parameter or by the low MDI value.
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Dr. Lynch and Dr. Granger, neuroscientists, respectively, at the University of California, Irvine, and Dartmouth, also point out that brain size isn't everything.
Brain size isn't 100-percent correlated with intelligence (if so, sperm whales would rule the world).
Still, Dr. Castellanos, now at New York University's Child Study Center, said the difference in overall brain size was "not huge".
Our findings imply that any sex-specific adaptations to overall brain size are not associated with large relative differences in the size of various cerebral regions.
This rapid evolution suggests these genes may have had a key role in the evolutionary enlargement of the brain, although the link of CENPJ and MCPH1 to the evolution of gross brain size was not confirmed in the association analysis of absolute neonatal brain size among primates [ 16].
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