Article: The pattern of evolution in Pleistocene human brain size

Dictionary definition: cranial capacity
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      245 words ...cranial capacity [De]. Volume of the brain expressed in cubic centimetres.

Article: Opinions on Current Reading: We Are All Children of Africa
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  September 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... from whites. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould charged that the scientific racists doctored their results on cranial capacity and brain size in an attempt to prove the racial superiority of whites. Recent research shows that all current races of ...

Article: Facing race.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review)
National Review;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... differences among the resulting populations--differences not only in skin color but also in body size, cranial capacity and brain size, intelligence, physical ability, and personality--they argue that so much adaptation in so l

Article: THE REAL STORY OF NUCLEAR WINTER AND THE DINOSAURS' DEMISE
The Boston Globe;  April 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... including skin impressions! -- of an animal not unlike Stenonychosaurus, but with a greatly enlarged cranial capacity. And brain size is not the only reason I know this new species was intelligent." "What else?" "Pockets! This dinosaur ...

Article: Social competition gave humans bigger brains, suggests study.
Asian News International;  June 23, 2009 ;     635 words ... ... were found. They found that population density had the biggest effect on skull size and thus cranial capacity. "Our findings suggest brain size increases the most in areas with larger populations and this almost certainly increased the intensity ...

Article: Pruning the family tree: a controversial study sends many hominid ...
Science News;  September 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... anatomical variation than our current species, Homo sapiens, in two crucial measurements--cranial capacity (an indirect marker of brain size) and body size. To better understand the cranial variation in a sample of three ancient hominid ...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ANTHROPOLOGIST FINDS SIGNS OF EVOLUTION IN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... tell us about relative brain size [and] body shape ... body shape and relative brain size in an individual rather ... between body size and cranial capacity in this Middle Pleistocene ... Most estimates of brain size have been carried out ...