Chapter 12: Giant Brains

• Introduction
• Back to the Boskops
• The find was examined by others
• The Man of the Future
• Fitzsimons found 3 more skulls.
• The subsequent finds were more complete than the initial find.
• Boskops were the inspiration for aliens like the "grays"
• All this happend near the time of the Piltdown fraud
• How Giant Brains were Forgotten
• About Piltdown
• 1912
• Gravel pit in the Piltdown region of England.
• Charles Dawson was the "discoverer"
• Dawson took his find to Arthur Smith Woodard
• The Piltdown discovery became very popular in England though doubted in other parts of the world.
• Martin Hinton was apparently the perpetrator of the fraud
• "practice" bones were found in one of his closets
• The fraud created a lasting stain on the reputation of British anthropology
• Inside the Giant Brain
• Speculation on Boskop capabilities
• Boskops had approximately 25% larger brains than modern humans
• Argues for enhanced planning, memory and association abilities.
• Giant Brains and Intelligence
• Nobody knows what effects a larger brain would have on IQ.
• Guesses that 25% larger brain would result in 10-30 points.
• People who were "gifted" (130+) would become genius level (140 to 160).
• People who were genius level (150+) would become superhuman (160 to 180).