army1987 comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2012 12:14:42AM 0 points [-]

A larger head makes death during childbirth easier, so I'd expect evolution to be optimizing processing power per unit volume even today.

Comment author: Rhwawn 08 July 2012 12:11:27AM 2 points [-]

Unfortunately, neurons are about as efficient in most species - they're already as optimized as you get. For that and other interesting facts, see http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/19/1201895109.abstract