{"id":17552,"date":"2010-07-11T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/?p=599"},"modified":"2011-01-26T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:55:20","slug":"the-inevitable-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/11\/the-inevitable-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitable intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetic-inference.co.uk\/blog\/?p=871\">Luke Jostin&#8217;s<\/a> analysis of the growth in cranial capacity in the hominin lineage from last spring a fair amount. In particular, in the comments he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetic-inference.co.uk\/blog\/?p=871&amp;cpage=1#comment-3097\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The data above includes all known Homo skulls, but none of the results change if you exclude the 24 Neandertals.<strong> In fact, you see the same results if you exclude Sapiens but keep Neandertals; the trends are pan-Homo, and aren\u2019t confined to a specific lineage<\/strong> (though if you exclude Erectus everything goes skewiff, as you\u2019d expect).<\/p>\n<p>That brain size increases gradually in all lineages is another pretty strong argument against brain size being a macromutation.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve put the species in the data file, if you want to play around with it yourself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A particular configuration of traits or genes aligned early on in the existence of <em>Homo<\/em> seem to have resulted in increases in cranial capacities across divergent lineages. Robert J. Sawyer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neanderthal_Parallax\">The Neanderthal Parallax<\/a> series may be less fantastical in its premise than we would have thought.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save#url=http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/2010\/07\/11\/the-inevitable-intelligence\/&amp;title=The%20inevitable%20intelligence\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think about Luke Jostin&#8217;s analysis of the growth in cranial capacity in the hominin lineage from last spring a fair amount. In particular, in the comments he notes: The data above includes all known Homo skulls, but none of the results change if you exclude the 24 Neandertals. In fact, you see the same [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36864,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions\/36864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}