Why Aren't We Smarter?

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Albert Einstein was mind-bogglingly smart. His brain, no bigger than an average man's, somehow worked better, making unprecedented mental leaps between space and time and ultimately linking them together to form spacetime, a strange and (to most people) almost inconceivable entity. Einstein's brain saw the universe and got it.
Why can't we all be that smart?
"You have two separate lines of research converging for the first time to suggest an answer," Edward Bullmore, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University in England, told Life's Little Mysteries.  more...