People in the north have bigger brains than those in the south.

[Churchill]

Does that mean all Northerners are inbreds due to their refusal to mix with foreigners?

Not since the invention of the bicycle, nope.

[EternalOptimist]

I liked this bit

"It is thought that the smaller brain-case of the Southern specimins explains why they did not make the leap to yeast fermentation at the same time as the Northern specimins, but instead concentrated their technolgy on the cabonation of lemon-water. The warmer climate also made life easier and less manually exerting resulting in the underdevelopment of the forearm.
All of which explains why the Southern specimins are limp wristed, shandy drinking poofters"

-Prof. Plum

[eek]

ftfy

It depends a relative of mine (racist purely on age) recently commented how few foreigners lived in ridiculously expensive town x compared to the surrounding merely stupidly expensive towns.

It does seem when you get to really expensive london suburbia foreigners want to live elsewhere. Mind you this is a town where Starbucks closed down as it wasn't posh enough for the locals.

[SueEllen]

Does that mean all Northerners are inbreds due to their refusal to mix with foreigners?

[Churchill]

Lets be honest. If you had brains the first thing you would think is let's not move South it may be warmer but it's overcrowded, expensive and full of bleeding foreigners.

ftfy

[DodgyAgent]

Lets be honest. If you had brains the first thing you would think is lets move South its warmer.

Good point

[eek]

It was also said that the extra brain capacity was used only for Northern people to cope with the reduced sunlight. It did not mean that they were brighter than us "properly brainy" southerners

Lets be honest. If you had brains the first thing you would think is lets move South its warmer.

[DodgyAgent]

It was also said that the extra brain capacity was used only for Northern people to cope with the reduced sunlight. It did not mean that they were brighter than us "properly brainy" southerners

[MarillionFan]

Wahey! Australopithecus has now arrived.

(I checked the spelling this time)

[Churchill]

And subsequently larger heads. For Nothern Man = Neandathal man.

Oh you dense bastard, the ironing!!!

[NickFitz]

Did they leave Eskimos and Innuits out of the study on purpose? They generally have small heads and tiny eyes.

I think they just didn't have any in the sample group:

"The team, from the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, used skulls dating from the 1800s kept at museums in Oxford and Cambridge.

"The skulls were from indigenous populations ranging from Scandinavia to Australia, Micronesia and North America."

- BBC News - How dark winters meant bigger human brains and eyeballs

[JamJarST]

Not really a surprise,

Goes someway to explain the inventiveness of us northern types opposed to those burger flipping types in the south



People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains | Science | guardian.co.uk

Did they leave Eskimos and Innuits out of the study on purpose? They generally have small heads and tiny eyes.

[MarillionFan]

Not really a surprise,

Goes someway to explain the inventiveness of us northern types opposed to those burger flipping types in the south



People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains | Science | guardian.co.uk

And subsequently larger heads. For Nothern Man = Neandathal man.

[scooterscot]

Not really a surprise,

Goes someway to explain the inventiveness of us northern types opposed to those burger flipping types in the south

People who live at higher latitudes have larger eyes and more processing power in their brains to deal with visual information compared with those living nearer the equator, a study suggests.

People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains | Science | guardian.co.uk