How is brain size related to body size across species?
A. The size of the brain does not have to go up proportionally with the size of the body.
B. Larger animals paradoxically tend to have smaller brains.
C. As body size increases, brain size also increases in a linear fashion.
D. Humans are the only species that shows a 1-to-1 correspondence between brain size and body size.
Answer: A
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