Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence

Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence (MacSci) by Gary Lynch, Richard Granger
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1403979782 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.
But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. Many of these huge fossil skulls have been discovered over the last century, but most of us have never heard of this scientific marvel.