Sentences with phrase «of encephalization»
He eventually came up with a complicated scheme in which all animals had a certain degree of encephalization, which increased in jumps of two (so humans were 1, apes were 1/4, cats and dogs were 1/8, etc.).
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Comparative analysis of encephalization in mammals reveals relaxed constraints on anthropoid primate and cetacean brain scaling.
Not exact matches
In support of that claim, one widely cited study found that the ratio of brain volume to body mass — commonly referred to as the encephalization quotient, or EQ — was the same for Cro - Magnons as it is for us.
As you'd expect from the above data, the encephalization quotient (a measure of brain size compared to body size) for the Dmanisi hominids and the Turkana Boy is well below that of modern humans (6.3):