Questions About the Book

I had many questions when I read the book.  One of the reasons for creating this blog is to see if anyone out there would care to speculate or answer some of them:

Anthropology questions

• Is the Boskop find credible?
• How have past civilizations been influenced by the average intelligence of their members?
• What caused previous civilizations to fail?
• How have past civilizations treated exceptionally intelligent members?

Psychology

• How does brain size correlate with intelligence?
• What is the most striking aspect of human beings with larger than average brains?
• Does having a large brain predispose or inure a person from mental disorders?

Medicine/Biology

• Does having a large brain cost more in terms of energy needs for the organism?
• (verification) Is the infant mortality/maternal death rate of human beings higher than in other primates?
• (verification) Did standing upright allow human beings to have larger babies?
• (verification) Do human females, compared to other primates, have wider hips?
• (verification) Does having wider hips make the birthing process safer for both mother and child?
• Why does a child's head have to be large at birth in order to have a large brain later on? Why can't a child be born with a smaller head or body and just grow larger?