creators_name: Humphrey, Nicholas
type: journale
datestamp: 2002-08-12
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:20
metadata_visibility: show
title: Why Grandmothers May Need Large Brains. (Commentary on Skoyles on Brain Expertise)
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-ani-cog
subjects: physio-psy
subjects: Psycoloquy
subjects: bio-socio
subjects: evol-psy
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: brain size, evolution of intelligence, human life history, social intelligence hypothesis, human evolution
abstract: Skoyles's case against human brain size being related to IQ is strong; but his case in favor of its being related to expertise is weak. I propose that the explanation for the evolutionary expansion of the human brain in fact lies far away, in the need to have a brain that could continue to function into old age.
date: 1999
date_type: published
publication: Psycoloquy
volume: 10
number: 024
pagerange: 1-3
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Humphrey, Nicholas  (1999) Why Grandmothers May Need Large Brains. (Commentary on Skoyles on Brain Expertise).  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/848/1/skoyles.htm