Review: Big Brain by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger

Watch a human brain morph into a “Boskop” brain

Compare the two brains side-by-side

I’VE been waiting for someone to write this book for years. I almost wrote it myself – twice – but was distracted by other projects. Now Gary Lynch and Richard Granger have written a much-needed book on big brains.

Big Brain is a popular account of how brains enlarge, in both evolutionary and developmental terms. Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, the authors caution, when you’re comparing one human with another;…