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Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 17 Sep 2024 - 18:00
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence
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For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special about the human brain. How do we approach this problem from a mathematical standpoint? The first hypothesis is that bigger is better, in some sense. This introductory lecture uses scaling laws and simple ideas from statistics to study the brains of humans and animals and uncover basic principles that govern their sizes, as well as testing hypotheses that link size to intelligence.
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