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From: beede@hubcap.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Why are Humans as Smart as They Are?
Message-ID: <419@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 20:32:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 20:32:24 1987
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References: <3835@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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in article <3835@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) says:
> 
> There are also poeple with hollow brains, hydrocephalics whose brain is
> just a thin veneer over a bubble of cerebro-spinal fluid.  Many of these
> people are normal or above normal in intelligence, even though they have
> only 5% (!!!) of the normal brain mass.

I have seen mention of this before, but never in what I would call a
reliable source.  If you (or any other netian) could offer some citation
for this, I'd appreciate it.  Not criticising, just interested.



P.S., mail would be nice -- I'll be gone for 2 weeks and responses will
      probably expire before I see them.
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