Someone I know at TAC opined that everyone knows this stuff, and talking about it is just mean. I think he is mistaken: you have to state important facts every so often, or nobody knows them anymore.
The article contains the line:
Average cranial capacity in Europeans is about 1362; 1380 in Asians, 1276 in Africans. It’s about 1270 in New Guinea.
What's wrong here? 4 degrees of accuracy for brain size and no error bars? That's a sign of someone being either intentionally or unintentionally dishonest.
Quick Googling shows that there's a paper published that states that European's average cranial capacities is 1347.
Rather then describing the facts as they are he paints things as more certain than they are. I think that people who do that in an area, ...
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