TomHendricks474  wrote:

>  So, despite the great similarities in overall brain
structure and DNA
> > content, etc, SOMETHING fundamental is missing in what these people
> > are saying. What can that be?
> > 
> Cortical folds? 
> (snipped)
> 
> TH
> Along those lines, many may find this interesting. "The cerebral cortex is
> the the deeply convoluted surface region of the brain that is most
> strongly linked to intelligence. A human's cerebral cortex, if flattened,
> would cover four pages of typing paper, a chimpanzee's would cover only
> one; a monkey's would cover a postcard; and a rat's would cover a postage
> stamp."  The Emergence of Intelligence, W. H. Calvin.

Yep, that's who I got it from...
-- 
John Wilkins
"And this is a damnable doctrine" - Charles Darwin, Autobiography
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