I'm thinking that evolutionary pressure in the direction of bigger brains is still a force in Human sexuality. Do women find big brain compartments in males sexually atractive, and visa versa?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein's_brain
he brain of physicist Albert Einstein has been a subject of much research and speculation. It was removed within seven and a half hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or irregularities in the brain have been used to support various ideas about correlations in neuroanatomy with general or mathematical intelligence . Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of glial cells in Einstein's brain. [1]
Newly recovered photographs [ edit ]
A study, "The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description and preliminary analysis of unpublished photographs", [9] was published on November 16, 2012, in the journal Brain.Dean Falk, an evolutionary anthropologist at Florida State University, led the study - which analysed 14 recently discovered photographs - and described the brain: "Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein's brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary." [13]
Brains of other geniuses [ edit ]
Preserving the brains of geniuses was not a new phenomenon—another brain to be preserved and discussed in a similar manner was that of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss almost a hundred years earlier. His brain was studied by Rudolf Wagner who found its weight to be 1,492 grams and the cerebral area equal to 219,588 square millimeters. [14] Also found were highly developed convolutions, which was suggested as the explanation of his genius. [15] Other brains that were removed and studied include that ofVladimir Lenin [16] and the American Indian, Ishi. The brain of Edward H. Rulloff, a noted philologist and criminal, was removed after his death in 1871; in 1972, it was still the second largest brain on record. [17]
