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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/13/2007 : 08:20:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
That is a point I considered upon writing my previous post. However, I am unsure of how one can differentiate between knowledge and intelligence. Not only that, but I have absolutely no idea how you can measure intelligence. Any suggestions?
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Well, the IQ exam was designed to measure a person's raw intelligence and not their accumulated knowledge, but the success of that attempt is disputed. When examining fossils, measuring cranial capacity in relation to an organism's body size can hint at its overall intelligence level, although admittedly the link is tenuous. Humans, being smart, tend to have proportionately larger brains than other animals of the same size. However, the brain size of modern humans is not significantly larger out most distant direct ancestor of 250,000 years ago, suggesting that they were no less smart than us, even if they knew less. Here is a chart comparing hominid skull brain volumes.
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