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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: evolution of intelligence
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In article <5768@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:

   Also, by "size of brain" do you mean
      (A) Weight
      (B) Volume
      (C) Number of Neurons
      (D) Number of Connections
      (E) Resolution of each Connection
      (F) Rate of Connection Change
      (G) Number of desernable Neurotransmitters
   or some combination of these, or somthing else?

I think the accepted meaning of "size of brain" is (b) its volume.
Cro-Magnon was the race whose cranial volume approached that of modern
man (in fact, it exceeded ours).  Coincidentally :-) Cro-Magnon was
also the first race to innovate, use language, and develop art.  Read
Jared Diamond's article in Discover, earlier this year (March?).
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Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada