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Letter: It's what you know

Published 16 November 2011

From Richard Holroyd

What Phyllis Goldstein’s letter on the end of evolution of brain size (22 October, p 35) overlooks is that the more knowledge you have in your memory, the faster you can work and the more you can do.

At a mundane level, imagine trying to write a letter when you have to look up the spelling of every word.

Cambridge, UK

Issue no. 2839 published 19 November 2011

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