A new study comparing Albert Einstein’s brain and a regular human brain suggests that the reason he was a genius was due to an unusual brain size. Scientists discovered that several cortices of the brain were overly developed and might have been the reason his mathematical skills were so advanced. Hit the jump
‘Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary,’ said Dean Falk, the Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State, told Science Daily.
