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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by ben_w on Sunday November 15, 2020 @04:26PM (#25105033)
We don’t know enough to know if that’s a good measure; if it is, ants would be at the top of the list for all animals, and treeshrews for mammals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio
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Re:Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, r... by salty_biscuits on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:32PM (#25105599)
The scaling power coefficient matters, they are so far off our mass that the coefficient might just be wrong. Neanderthals are about the same size so an error in the coefficient won't matter so much.
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