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About fully vs. not fully grown brains.

Dr John E. Anderson jander at unf.edu
Mon May 21 17:54:39 EST 2001


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> From: owner-neur-sci at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-neur-sci at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk]On Behalf Of "Dr John
> E. Anderson"
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 18:22 PM
> To: neur-sci at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: About fully vs. not fully grown brains.
>
>
> I hate to prolong this thread, but Brian, here is what you said:
>
> "Mr.Hammond says that the difference is the GROWTH of the brains.
> My stance is that that there IS no difference between brains
> (adults) when
> their size is held equal.
> What IS different is what is called EXPERIENCE, and that is
> store in the
> MEMORY.
> How FAST a brain will grow is determined by what RACE the
> person belongs to.
> African's develope and mature faster, but their growth is
> arrested early
> compared with Asians and
> Europeans.
>
> Thus because they have smaller brains, it will have a
> significant result -
> lower IQ (the g-factor)."
>
> It sounds like something a racist would say to me, too.  What
> do you think?

In my haste to get that last message off before giving a brief lecture, I
forgot to add the most important question, which is, what's your evidence?

John

John Anderson, Ph.D.
Department of Natural Sciences
University of North Florida
4567 St Johns Bluff Road, South
Jacksonville, FL 32224

jander at unf.edu

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