August 7, 2012

Social Network Size Linked to Brain Size

How and why the volume of the orbital prefrontal cortex is related to the size of social networks.
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As humans, we aren't born with formidable armaments or defenses, nor are we the strongest, fastest, or biggest species, yet despite this we are amazingly successful. For a long time it was thought that this success was because our enlarged brains allows each of us to be smarter than our competitors: better at abstract thinking, better with tools and better at adapting our behavior to those of our prey and predators. But are these really the most significant skills our brains provide us with?

Read more at Scientific American

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