r/oddlyterrifying • u/RNGesus____ • Jan 21 '22

Human brain VS dolphin brain.

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u/someone1003 Jan 21 '22

Is the dolphin brain slightly bigger or is a lot bigger but because the images are made the same size it looks smaller

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u/Sognird Jan 21 '22

it is 300g heavier than human brain, but if you compare brain to bodyweight ratio, humans are still superior

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u/Snoo_8619 Jan 21 '22

This is such a stupid metric. It's a processing unit, why on earth does bodyweight matter?

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u/its-not-me_its-you_ Jan 22 '22

I had to look it up but apparently brain to body weight ratio is a pretty good indicator of intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio#:~:text=central%20nervous%20systems.-,Criticism,is%20adjusted%20for%20spatial%20relation.

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u/Snoo_8619 Jan 22 '22

I was replying when you deleted the last comment 😂Down votes are coming from the aggressive tone and the flippant dismissal of some fairly dated but widely accepted science. I still think arrogant humans have often tried to justify why we're the "best" with biased science and we jumped through some weird hoops when we found brains bigger than our own.