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Nature 403, 378-379 (27 January 2000) | doi:10.1038/35000333

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Intelligence: Evolutionary psychology meets g

N. J. Mackintosh

Homo sapiens may not always seem to be wiser than other animals, but we are inclined to believe that we are more intelligent. Scepticism on this point is usually rebuffed by pointing to the hard evidence of the size of our brain and its threefold increase over the course of human evolution.