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Does Size Matter? Cross-Species Analysis of Intelligence and Brain Size

2026-02-10

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Brain size correlates weakly with intelligence within species yet strongly across species, and several taxa—from corvids to honeybees—exhibit cognitive abilities disproportionate to their brain mass. The Strong Electromagnetic Field Hypothesis (SEFH) proposes that higher cognition emerges from hierarchically nested electromagnetic (EM) field dynamics in neural tissue, generating predictions based on two variables:...

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Literature Corpus work: 73ebd585-db12-50bc-903d-c60f18214fca
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202602.0699.v2

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