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[–] mvirts 142 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Fysa, humans are born with moveable skull plates to accommodate brain growth and development after birth. You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

Also brain size correlates weakly with intelligence scores, but is not a major factor.

[–] mriormro 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Incorrect, my mother has the largest vagina. Therefore I am the smartest.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Calm down Dwight

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... Can we collectively infer from that sentence you were birthed or dropped?

Giraffes do the last and it works but unless you present your Giraffe Card, I'm going to default count you as human and being dropped head first into the floor is not good for human newborns.

But if you are indeed a giraffe: how do you type?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonus for dexterity but the average keys would be too small to actuate properly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My brain hurts after that!

[–] mutant_zz 35 points 1 year ago

Obsessing over brain size and the hip width of women is a big eugenics / white supremacist thing... the kind of thing the nazis were really into... what a surprise to see Musk spouting this kind of bullshit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

There's the issue, like with most of his ventures, Elon outsources all the actual work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be clear, Elon is the idiot in that regard here, and the person he’s replying to, not myself. I understand that perfectly well. If you’re providing this info to the bigots on lemmy at large, good on you then.

And it’s not so much “moveable bones” as it is bones that are still soft and connected by soft fascial sutures called fontanels that harden over time, most likely to make birth easier and to accommodate significant growth for the first stages.

[–] mvirts 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. Yes, this isn't aimed at you just anyone who may not know about the subject.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I thought that was the case, but thank you for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From my understanding, the ratio of brain size to body size is a much better way of getting a general estimate for intelligence.

[–] Blue_Morpho 10 points 1 year ago

Only cross species not within a single species.

[–] mvirts 10 points 1 year ago

I think general intelligence estimation mostly ends up being flawed ethically.