From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (Karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 11:36:01 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "John B" <discwuzit@yahoo.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: Re:genetic engineering of IQ thought experiment
>
> > > c) We do know that Einstein was somewhat of a sport - his brain, as
> > > found by autopsy, had gross
> > > abnormalities.
> >
> > ### Not gross - there was a large planum temporale, if I remember
> > correctly,
> > but nothing out of the ordinary. At least nothing that would jump out at
> > you, without precise morphometry and a lot of statistics.
>
> Sorry - was going on a relatively old memory.
>
> -John
>
According to
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/einstein990617.html the
abnormalities were not gross. He had a partially missing central sulcus,
more glial cells than most, and the inferior parietal lobes were somehow
different from most.
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