Friday, August 20, 2010

Human intelligence vs. other animals

One measure of relative intelligence between animals.

The encephalization quotient or EQ) is a rough estimate of the possible intelligence of an organism. It can be defined as the ratio of the actual brain weight to the expected brain weight of a typical animal that size, EQ=w(brain)/Ew(brain).

Of course this measure keeps humans on top.
But interesting how much closer bottlenose dolphins are to humans than chimps...


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