No direct correlation between body mass and brain size, finds new study
No direct correlation between body mass and brain size, finds new study
NEW DELHI: A bigger body may not always necessarily mean a bigger brain, claimed a research team that has found a disproportional relationship between the two.
For more than a century, scientists have thought that the larger an animal is, the brain is proportionally bigger - a "linear" or a straight-line relationship, according to the study's authors.
"We now know this is not true. The relationship between brain and body size is a curve, essentially meaning very large animals have smaller brains than expected," said lead author Chris Venditti from the University of Reading, UK.
