While “size does not matter” is a universally preached dictum among the politically correct, everyday experience tells us that this can’t be the whole story—under many conditions, it clearly does.

19 th-century phrenologists coined the phrases “highbrow” and “lowbrow”, correlating the brain size to intelligence. But is it true? It is true that brain sizes vary across humans and that men tend to ...

You are a child who grew up. The inevitability of a child’s growth is both celebrated and mourned. Under normal circumstances, parents can do little but stand back and watch as shoe sizes climb, ...

At the end of our first blog post we left readers with a provocative fact about Neandertals: Neandertal brains were different from ours. We have no living Neandertal brains; indeed, we have no ...