Sentences with phrase «human brain sizes range»

For all practical purposes, modern human brain sizes range from 900 cm3 to 2000 cm3.

Not exact matches

When AIG wrote that, they were following the approach of Lubenow, who claims that the range of brain sizes in modern humans goes down to about 700 cm3 (compared to about 1350 cm3 for the average modern human).

So, another question for AIG: if the Dmanisi skulls are H. erectus, and erectus skulls are «within the range of people today», could they please provide some evidence of modern humans with similar brain sizes?

So although the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes does overlap that of Homo erectus, their skulls are very different: in H. erectus, the brain case really is smaller in relation to the rest of the skull.

Because of the obvious humanness of the Turkana Boy fossil, and the fact that H. erectus brain sizes overlap the extreme lower range of modern human brain sizes, creationists have nowadays almost entirely abandoned the old line (popularized by Duane Gish) that Peking Man and Java Man are apes, and now generally claim that Homo erectus fossils are a variant form of modern humans (ignoring the inconvenient fact that there are many obvious differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens).