• Question: how big is our brain?

    Asked by blunt to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Our brain weighs about 1.5 kg and has a volume of about 1200 cubic cm. The size of the brain tends to vary with body size.

    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Lena is right but the knowledge is HUGE! That can’t easily be measured.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I think that it is the number of neurons, not total size that is important. Did you know that on average the male brain is larger than the female brain? As shown by the very smart women in this group, brain size does not equal intelligence!

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