Sentences with phrase «brain the size of»

You obviously have the brain size of a pea.

After all... we all know Jesus was a WHITE REDNECK with a brain the size of gnat testicles!

Breastfeeding, according to all the trendiest news stories, is the best thing ever — it turns your baby into a super genius with a brain the size of a mutated cantaloupe and all but ensures that child's eventual acceptance into an elite university, either Oxford or the Sorbonne, but maybe Harvard as a back - up.

He has a brain the size of David Willets» but so far a deft political touch has eluded him.

Open Sesame Billye, a giant Pacific octopus, has a brain the size of a walnut.

Bees do remarkable things with a brain the size of a pinhead, raising some intriguing questions about the nature of intelligence for David Robson

We can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149.

These fossils, dating from 1.77 million years ago, had brains between 600 and 775 cubic centimeters in volume, whereas H. erectus is generally thought to have had an average brain size of around 900 cubic centimeters.

She stood barely more than a meter tall and had a brain the size of a chimpanzee's.

If so, it would mean that, rather than being an 18,000 - year - old representative of a new species, the hobbit was just a modern human with a growth disorder that left it with a brain the size of a grapefruit, among other odd traits, which is what critics have argued all along.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

«They are very petite and have the brain size of chimpanzees.

So Møller's team then compared the brain sizes of birds that got shot to those that didn't.

This particular roll of film contains 6000 slices, representing a speck of brain the size of a grain of salt.

Paper wasps with brains the size of two grains of sand can recognize the faces of their fellow wasps.

The analysis also discovered that the raccoon was an outlier — on the brainy side: It packs the same number of cortical neurons as a dog into a brain the size of a cat's.

«This could account for small brain sizes of great apes despite their large body sizes.»

But they can clearly get their two cents in despite having a brain the size of a walnut.

Another large - brained animal is the elephant, with an average brain size of around 11 pounds.

Two he does mention, Rhodesian Man and Saldanha, he claims are Homo erectus, in spite of the fact that their brains sizes of about 1280 and 1250 cc are above the maximum H. erectus brain size of 1225 cc, which is in turn well above the value of about 1100 cc that Goodman claims is the maximum H. erectus brain size.

But despite some modern traits, it has a number of australopithecine features, and a brain size of only about 750 cc (compared to the modern human average of at least 1350 cc).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a novel way in which the brain size of developing mammals may be regulated.

Creationists, however, are unlikely to find the idea of a human with a brain size of 510 cc very appealing.

Modern men of that stature would be expected to have a larger than average brain size, but the Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size of 910 cc is smaller than all but a fraction of 1 % of modern humans of all sizes and both sexes.

The cranium was reconstructed by Meave Leakey into two main pieces that give an estimated brain size of 775cc.

550 cc is actually above the maximum chimp brain size of about 500 cc, and it is by no means typical of habilis.

That is a long time in which no change was evident except for the larger brain size of Kow Swamp and Cossack.

H. habilis was small statured, unlike later finds of H. erectus and when more examples of Australopithecus were found in subsequent decades, it was clear the brain size of H. habilis was only slightly larger than that of contemporary australopithecines.

Figures for the average brain size of modern humans tend to vary between sources, but a typical value is 1350 or 1400 cc (cubic centimetres).

Scott says that ER 1470's brain size of 750 cc is smaller than a gorilla, and «well within the limits of today's apes».

On the other hand fossil OH 62 proves that «habilis ``, far from being Homo - like, was small and ape - like - these cases were the very opposite of what evolution theory predicted and expected.103 Even though the brain size of WT 15000 was smaller than most modern humans, it was still larger than quite a few people living today.

It is regarded as one explanation for the relatively large neonatal brain size of precocial mammals [19], [49].

However, the average brain size of chimpanzees is only about one - third of our average brain size.

Raccoons, by comparison are incredibly smart — despite only having a brain the size of a cat, they have the same cortical neurons as a dog or a primate.

The brain size of a human is like the Hummer of the animal world.

And you with a «brain the size of a planet» who has independently analysed the various records and shown that most adjustments have made no difference to the actual rise since the seventies.

While upright in posture, they only had a brain the size of an ape's, about a third the size of our brains.

Assuming there is any way for human lawyers to compete with an artificial brain the size of a planet (much less one on every desktop), legal work will likely be different.

Indeed a number of well - known pillars of the legal community with brains the size of a small hatchback have told us, for very good legal reasons, that compulsory mediation is not the way forward.

He is incredibly bright, bordering on genius, and has the most brilliant rapport with the court», «exceptionally able junior counsel who attracts resounding praise both from his instructing solicitors and his peers at the Bar», «he has a brain the size of Jupiter, is tenacious, polite and very good on his feet», «outstandingly committed... he's a brilliantly analytical and fast - thinking advocate», and «has the «Midas touch» and is not only exceptionally knowledgeable and commercial, but readily grasps the issues concerning clients».

«Has got a brain the size of a planet, and a very nice manner to him.»

But if a bug with a brain the size of a grain of sand can adapt to new situations quickly and smoothly, there must be a simpler, more analog way.

Not exact matches

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

Exercise could strengthen some of the pathways our brain uses to relay signals for recent events, or boost the size of certain brain regions that are key for learning and storing memories.

Depending on the size and location of the pressure on the brain, MedicineNet noted that a subdural hematoma could cause slurred speech, nausea, vomiting, seizures, and confusion.

God's image IS our brain, & if we could shrink ourselves to the size of a brain cell & go inside & take a look around, I imagine it would look a LOT like the universe does to us from Earth now.

and (Atheists) they don't realize that while their egos bloat like space blob their brains simultaneously shrink into the size of a quark.

It has been found that such allergy would make brains shrink to the size of a quark.

Reseachers at the Universities of Chicago and Iowa have pin - pointed the the ventromedial area of the prefrontal cortex of the brain (a good - sized chunk of the brain just above your eyes) as the area responsible for making you pause and consider information before you accept it as fact.