The regions of the brain that most strongly differentiate the CEU from the rest are that they have a shrunken occipital cortex (region 2) and a massive dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (region 11). The DLPFC is so small in West Africans you can barely see it in the image.
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“The average brain-weight of the 108 individuals is 1473 grams, exceeding the various averages given for the European brain by 75 to 100 grams, and this without allowing for the advanced age of the men in this series.” This is more than would be expected from a 0.3 correlation.
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You may have noticed the tendency for famously accomplished nerds like Quentin Tarantino to have colossally overgrown foreheads. What you may not have appreciated is how that extreme creativity can co-exist alongside a relatively low IQ:https://io9.gizmodo.com/read-quentin-tarantinos-adorable-letter-to-a-13-year-ol-5800399 …
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And here is the world’s greatest living creative artist, who himself has an alarmingly large forehead, making the same point about Tarantino:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0imUF8EmDIQ …
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