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Removing brains after their owners died revealed that Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev’s brain broke the two-kilogram barrier, coming in at 2,021 grams, whereas writer Anatole France’s brain could barely bring half of that weight to the scale at 1,017 grams. (Note that postmortem measures are not directly comparable to data obtained from living brains.) In other words, gross brain size varies considerably across healthy adults.
Mogged brutally by Ivan Turgenev who had a brain almost twice his size.
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Mogged brutally by Ivan Turgenev who had a brain almost twice his size.




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