• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Fysa, humans are born with moveable skull plates to accommodate brain growth and development after birth. You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

    Also brain size correlates weakly with intelligence scores, but is not a major factor.

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      Obsessing over brain size and the hip width of women is a big eugenics / white supremacist thing… the kind of thing the nazis were really into… what a surprise to see Musk spouting this kind of bullshit

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      11 months ago

      To be clear, Elon is the idiot in that regard here, and the person he’s replying to, not myself. I understand that perfectly well. If you’re providing this info to the bigots on lemmy at large, good on you then.

      And it’s not so much “moveable bones” as it is bones that are still soft and connected by soft fascial sutures called fontanels that harden over time, most likely to make birth easier and to accommodate significant growth for the first stages.

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      You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

      There’s the issue, like with most of his ventures, Elon outsources all the actual work.

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      From my understanding, the ratio of brain size to body size is a much better way of getting a general estimate for intelligence.