Bigger Not Necessarily Better, When It Comes to Brains
Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
“Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent,” according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary’s Research Centre for Psychology and University of Cambridge colleague, Jeremy Niven. This begs the important question: what are they for?
Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals. Honeybees, for example, can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
“We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal’s brain size,” explains Chittka, writing in the journal Current Biology. “However, contrary to popular belief, we can’t say that brain size predicts their capacity for intelligent behaviour.”
Differences in brain size between animals is extreme: a whale’s brain can weigh up to 9 kg (with over 200 billion nerve cells), and human brains vary between 1.25 kg and 1.45 kg (with an estimated 85 billion nerve cells). A honeybee’s brain weighs only 1 milligram and contains fewer than a million nerve cells.
While some increases in brain size do affect an animal’s capability for intelligent behaviour, many size differences only exist in a specific brain region. This is often seen in animals with highly developed senses (like sight or hearing) or an ability to make very precise movements. The size increase allows the brain to function in greater detail, finer resolution, higher sensitivity or greater precision: in other words, more of the same.
Research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control — for example they need to move bigger muscles and therefore need more and bigger nerves to move them.
Chittka says: “In bigger brains we often don’t find more complexity, just an endless repetition of the same neural circuits over and over. This might add detail to remembered images or sounds, but not add any degree of complexity. To use a computer analogy, bigger brains might in many cases be bigger hard drives, not necessarily better processors.”
This must mean that much ‘advanced’ thinking can actually be done with very limited neuron numbers. Computer modelling shows that even consciousness can be generated with very small neural circuits, which could in theory easily fit into an insect brain.
In fact, the models suggest that counting could be achieved with only a few hundred nerve cells and only a few thousand could be enough to generate consciousness. Engineers hope that this kind of research will lead to smarter computing with the ability to recognise human facial expressions and emotions.
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1. Flies have a brain the size of a pinhead
2. People or animals or insects with big brains do not mean that their intelligent
3. Some scientists are questioning why we have brains
4. Honeybees can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, they can understand things thaT alike and different.
5. a whale’s brain can weigh 9 kg with over 200 billion nerve cells, and human brains can weigh between 1.25 kg and 1.45 kg with about 85 billion nerve cells. A honeybee’s brain weighs1 milligram and has fewer than 1 million nerve cells.
1.A whales brain can get up to 9 kg .
2. A whales brain has over 200 billion nerve cells.
3. Scientist say that in there research that a bigger animal needs a bigger brain because there is more to control in its body.
4. Chittka said that bigger brains they don’t often find more complexity.
5. Chittka said that we know that body size is the single best way to find out an animal’s brain size.
1.Honeybees for example can count categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces understand same and different.
2.Differences in brain size between animals is extreme.
3.We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal’s brain size.
4.Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals.
5.Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent.
1. Scientist think that bigger animals need bigger brains.
2. Scientist say that animals with bigger brains ant really that intelligent.
3.Scientists say that body size is the single best way to predict an animal’s brain size.
4.Scientists suggests that larger animals may need larger brains simply because there is more to control.
5. While some increases in brain size do affect an animal’s capability for intelligent behaviour, many size differences only exist in a specific brain region.
1. Animals with bigger brains are not always smater than people with little brain.
2.Insects are able to do some things like mammals
3.Tiny insects brain are the size of a pinhead
4.Tiny insects have lots of nerouns
5.bigger mammals have bigger nerves to control them
1.Differences in them is a fly’s brain is smaller and more quick than a animal brain.
2.This adds detail, images, or sounds.
3.Research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control.
4.Engineers hope that this kind of research will lead to smarter computing with the ability to recognise human facial expressions and emotions.
5.The models suggest that counting could be achieved with only a few hundred nerve cells and only a few thousand could be enough to generate consciousness.
1. Tiny animals might possibly be as smart as bigger animals.
2. If an animal has a bigger brain then another animal it doesn’t mean it’s smarter.
3. Insects are capable of doing things that bigger animals can’t do.
4.Honeybees can count and catorgorize simalar ojects.
5.Diffrences in brain sizes can differ for diffrent animals.
1. Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
2. “Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent,” according to Lars Chittka,
3. Ecology at Queen Mary’s Research Centre for Psychology and University of Cambridge colleague, Jeremy Niven. This begs the important question: what are they for?
4. Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals. Honeybees
5. for example, can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and
Tiny insects have a brain the size of a pinhead.
Difference in brain size in animals is out of this world.
Just because an animal is bigger doesnt mean its smarter.
Honybees understand different and same.
small neruon number still means that animals can think more advanced.
1 insects are tiny but are intelligently big animals
2 they only have a brain the size of a pinhead
3 scientist are from queen mary university of london
4 scientist say animals with bigger brain are not always more intelligent
5 research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behavior
Article Summary for November 30, 2009
~ Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent
~Bigger animals need bigger brains because there is more to control
~ Advanced thinking can actually be done with very limited neuron numbers.
~Brain size cant predict the capacity for intelligent behavior
~ Size increases allows the brain to function in greater detail,finer resolution
11/29/09 Article: Bigger Not Necessarily Better, When It Comes to Brains
1. Tiny insects have the brain size of a penhead.
2. Body size is the best way to predict the size of a brain.
3. If a big animal has a bigger brain than another animal, it doesn’t matter.
4. Honeybees can count and catorgorize simalar ojects.
5. Differences in brain sizes can differ for different animals.
1) Small insects could be smarter than larger animals.
2) Small insects have very small brains but big brains dont always mean something is smart.
3) Insects are capable of some smart actions scientist previously thought was unique to bigger animals.
4) For example, honeybees can count, catergorize similiar objects like dogs and human faces, understand same and different, and be able to detect shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
5) A whale’s brain can get up to 9 kg and have over 200 billion nerve cells and a human brain’s weight can vary from 1.25 kg to 1.45 kg having up to 85 billion brain cells whereas a honeybee’s brain only weighs 1 mg and has under a million nerve cells.
1. Scientists say that animals with bigger brains aren’t really that intelligent.
2. Tiny insect’s brains are about the size of a pinhead.
3. If an animal is bigger, dosen’t mean it’s any smarter.
4. A whale’s brain can get up to nine killograms!
5. Tiny insects have alot of neurons.
1. Tiny animals might possibly be be as smart as bigger animals.
2. The brain size is different depending on the size of the animal.
3 Honybease can count and catorgorids smaller objeecks.
4 if an animal has a bigger brain that doesnt always meen it is smarter.
5. insecks sometimes can do more than bigger animals….such as insecks.
Dogs can remember human faces.
Honeys bees can count.
Small insects have brains smaller than a pinhead.
Brain sizes between animals is a lot.
Brain sizes helps you function the body better.
1. Tiny insects could beas intelligent as much bigger animals, dispite having a brain the size of a pinhead say scientist at Quenn Mary, University of London.
2.Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligant.
3.Honeybees can count, categorize similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand same and different and differentaite between different shapes that are symmetrical and asymmectrical.
4.We knnow that body size is the best way to predict how big their brain is.
5. A honeybee’s braiin inly weights 1 milligram and contains fewer than 1million nerve cells.
1. Animals with bigger brains are not always smater than humans.
2. Some smaller animals such as insects, can do some things we humans can do.
3. Some say that animals that are smaller are sometimes smarter.
4. Honeybees can actually catorize and count similar objects.
5. Tiny insects have many neuorons.
Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals
Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent
Differences in brain size between animals are way off on sizes
bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control
insects brain are the size of a pinhead
1.Differences in them is a fly’s brain is smaller and more quick than a animal brain.
2.This adds detail, images, or sounds.
3.Research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control.
4.Engineers hope that this kind of research will lead to smarter computing with the ability to recognise human facial expressions and emotions.
5.The models suggest that counting could be achieved with only a few hundred nerve cells and only a few thousand could be enough to generate consciousness.
1. Even though some animals have a small brain, they could be just as intelligent as bigger animals.
2. The size of an animal’s brain doesn’t necesarily tell how smart it is.
3. A whale’s brain can weigh up to 9 kg, while a honeybee’s brain weighs only 1 milligram.
4. Honeybees are very intelligent, even though their brain only weighs 1 milligram.
5. If the brain is bigger, it functions in better detail.
Tiny insects could be smarter as much bigger animals
“We know that how big it is the single best way to see an animals size of its head
While some increases in brain size do affect an animal’s actions for smart behaviour
This must mean that much ‘smarter thinking can be done with very few cell numbers
reserch shows that incects are realy smart and some thimes smarter than bigger animals
1)Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead.
2)This was said by scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
3)According to Lars Chittka,animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent.
4)Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals.
5)Honeybees can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
1. small insects have about the same sized brain as many large animals.
2. honey bees can categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces.
3. a whales brain can weigh up to 9 kg.
4. a honeybee’s brain weighs 1 milligram and contains fewer than 1 million nerve cells.
5. some research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains because there is more to control.
Tiny insects could be as smart as big animals
They have a brain the size of a pinhead.
The size of different living species is extremly different
Scienctist say the bigger you are the bigger brain cause you have more to control.
This research may lead them farther then they thought
~Tiny insects could be as smart as bigger animals than them.
~Although they have a brain the size of a pinhead.
~Tiny insects are capable of some intelligeny behaviors.
~Brain size does not always betermine the amount of intelligent behavior.
~Bigger animals may need bigger brains just because there is more to control.
1. Bigger brains are not always better.
2.Scientists say that Animals with bigger brains are not neccesarily smarter.
3.They also say that larger animals may need larger brains because there is more to control.
4.Body size is the best way to tell how smart an animal is.
5. Bee’s brain weighs only 1 milligram and yet still has almost a million nerve cells.
1.A whale’s brain can have over 200 billion nerve cells
2.Honey bees are very smart
3.An animals size has nothing to do with wether or not it is smart
4.Researchers think that larger animals have larger brains because there is more to control
5.Advanced thinking can be done with less neurons than thought
. Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals
. they also have a brain size of a pinhead
. chittka said that not all bigger animals are intelligent
. chittka said that in biger brains we dont find more complexity
. chittka said we know that body size is the single best way to predict a single brain size
1) Tiny insects have a brain the size of a pinhead.
2) If an animal has a bigger brain than the other doesn’t mean its smarter.
3)Honeybees can count and categories similar objects like dogs or human faces but they cant understand things that are alike or different.
4)Tiny insects have a lot of neurons.
5)Bigger animals have bigger nerves to control them.
1. A whales head can weigh up to 9 kilograms.
2. Incects can do things that bigger animals are not able to do.
3. Just because animals have bigger brains does not mean they are smarter.
4. Just because tiny incects have small brains does not mean they are not smart they can be smarter than bigger animals.
5. Flies have a brain the size of a pinhead.
1. Insects have alot more intelligents then we thenk they have.
2.The flys brain is as big as a pen head.
3. Just because an animal is bigger doesn ‘t mean it ’s smarter.
4.You just need a few thousand bran cells to gane consciousness.
5.Animals that have bigger brains are not nessasaerly more intelegent,for exemple a wale brain is begger than a humans but humans are smarter.
This article is about how bigger is not necessarily better, when it comes to brains. Small insects might be as smart as animals that are larger than them, even though they have a tiny brain that is like a pinhead in size. Some animals, like honeybees, have the ability to count, see the similarities in dogs and the faces of humans, know about contrasts, and figure out the difference between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical. When the brain is larger, the brain can work in better detail, sharper resolution, more sensitivity or better accuracy. Consciousness can be made with tiny neural circuits. Research might lead to smarter computing with being able to determine human emotions and expressions.
1.)Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals.
2.)Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent.
3.)Honeybees can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.\
4.)Differences in brain size between animals is extreme.
5.)While some increases in brain size do affect an animal’s capability for intelligent behaviour, many size differences only exist in a specific brain region.
1. Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
2. “Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent,” according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary’s Research Centre for Psychology and University of Cambridge colleague, Jeremy Niven.
3. Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviours scientists previously thought was unique to larger animals.
4. Honeybees, for example, can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
5. “We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal’s brain size,” explains Chittka, writing in the journal Current Biology. “However, contrary to popular belief, we can’t say that brain size predicts their capacity for intelligent behaviour.”
1. the flies brain is only the size of a pinhead
2. bees can count, categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand ’same’ and ‘different’, and differentiate between shapes that are symmetrical and asymmetrical.
3. An animals size does not make a difference in its intelegents
4. Some scientist think larger aninals need larger brains so they can have more control
5. Small animals have more nuerons than bigger ones
1. Tiny incsects have lots of nervouns.
2. Tiny incsects brains are the size of a pinhead.
3. Bigger mammal shave bigger nerves to control them.
4. A whales brain can get up to 9kg.
5. Whales brains have over 200 billion nerve cells.
Most tiny insects have a brain the size of a pinhead.
Animals with with bigger brains arent necassarily more intelligent.
Honeybess can count and do many other things.
Diffeferences between animal’s brain size is exteme.
A whale’s brain can weigh up to 9kg, while a human only 1.5kg.
1.Honeybees for example can count categorise similar objects like dogs or human faces understand same and different.
2.Differences in brain size between animals is extreme.
3.We know that body size is the single best way to predict an animal’s brain size.
4.Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals.
5.Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent.
small insects could be as smart as bigger animals.
tiny insects brains are about the size of a pen cap.
Honeybees can count.
bigger animals need bigger brains so they are more in control.
thinking can be done with very little neurons
1. Tiny insects might be as intelligent as bigger animals.
2. They have a brain size of a pin head.
3. Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more inteligent,
4. A whales brain can be as big as 9 kg.
5. Bigger brain means that the organism might have a larger hard drive but does not mean that they can process things better.
~Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent,” according Lars Chittka……
~Diffrences in brain sizes can differ for diffrent animals……
~Honeybees can count and catorgorize simalar ojects…….
~Scientist say that in there research that a bigger animal needs a bigger brain because there is more to control in its body…….
~small neruon number still means that animals can think more advanced…..
1. Tiny animals might possibly be as smart as bigger animals.
2. If an animal has a bigger brain then another animal it doesn’t mean it’s smarter.
3. Insects are capable of doing things that bigger animals can’t do.
4.Honeybees can count and catorgorize simalar ojects.
5.Diffrences in brain sizes can differ for diffrent animals.
1.Tiny insects could be more intelligent than larger animals.
2.Just because your brain is bigger doesn’t mean you are more intelligent than others.
3.Honeybees can count, categorise similar objects, and find the difference between shapes that are symmetrical or asymmetrical.
4.And the honeybees brain weighs one millogram and has less than 1,000,000 nerve cells.
5.Advanced thinking could be done with low nueron numbers.
1. Size doesn’t matter because insects can be just as smart as bigger animals although it has a very small brain.
2. Honeybees can count and see differences in similar objects like dogs or human faces.
3. Flys have the size of pinballs brain.
4. Tiny insects have alot of nuerons.
5. A whale’s brain can weigh up to 9 kg.
Tiny insects have a brain the size of a pinhead.
Difference in brain size in animals is out of this world.
Just because an animal is bigger doesnt mean its smarter.
Honybees understand different and same.
small neruon number still means that animals can think more advanced.
1.Tiny inscets could be intelligent as bigger animaks
2.If a animal is big it doesn’t mean it is smarter than a little animal.
3.Research shows that bugs can have intelligent behaviors.
4.A whales brain can weigh between 1.25 kg to 1.45 kg.
5.A whale brain is predicted to have 85 billion nerve cells.
1.Bees have a brain the size of a pin head
2.Research suggests that bigger animals may need bigger brains simply because there is more to control
3. Honeybees can actually categorize
4.Research shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behaviors scientists before thought was unique to larger animals.
5.Some smaller animals such as insects, can do some things we humans can do.
1. Tiny insects can be just as smart as large animals even if their brains are the size on a pinhead.
2. Scientists have done reaserch and have learned that a bee can tell same and different and things like that.
3.Scientists say larger animals only have bigger brains because there is more to control.
4.You dont technically need alot of neurons in your brain to be smart.
5.Differences between the sizes of brains is incredible.
1. A whales brain can weigh up to 9kg.
2.Body size or brain size doesn’t matter when it comes to ingenuity.
3.Advanced thinking can be done with limited neuron cells.
4.Bigger brains have more complexity and repititions.
5.A honeybees brain wieghes 1 milligram.