{"id":849,"date":"2012-03-26T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T00:53:19","slug":"neanderthal-brains-and-eye-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/26\/neanderthal-brains-and-eye-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthal Brains and Eye Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/evoanth.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/29\/neanderthals-had-differently-organised-brains\/\">Neanderthals had differently organized brains<\/a> reports evidence that Neanderthal brains did not have a larger volume devoted to intelligence (or at least that part of intelligence needed to handle social interactions in large groups) than humans.<\/p>\n<p>A key fact is that &#8220;eye-socket size is correlated with latitude&#8221; &#8211; at least within a species.<\/p>\n<p>Neanderthals were adapted to high latitudes, and had larger eye-sockets.<\/p>\n<p>That suggests a relatively large part of their brain was devoted to the visual cortex, and it seems somewhat plausible to suspect that much of that involved low-level processing needed to make up for darker conditions at higher latitudes.<\/p>\n<p>So Neanderthals&#8217; larger skull size doesn&#8217;t imply any important advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post titled Neanderthals had differently organized brains reports evidence that Neanderthal brains did not have a larger volume devoted to intelligence (or at least that part of intelligence needed to handle social interactions in large groups) than humans. A key fact is that &#8220;eye-socket size is correlated with latitude&#8221; &#8211; at least within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,113],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain","tag-neanderthals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-dH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}