Talk:Microcephaly
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Is this the same condition as Micrencephaly ? Is a merge required. GameKeeper 15:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I changed "gender" to "sex" because gender is often used now as a social construction of identity, versus the strictly biological significance of sex. aron 71.198.76.26 05:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- To Mr./Ms. 71.198.76.26 - Sex is derived from physical characteristics. Gender from social constructs. In the context of this article, sex is appropriate as the patient's mental state has little to do with the circumference of their head. I would have reverted your edit if someone had not already done so.
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- You would have been foolish to do so since 71.198.76.26 is saying the same thing you are with greater subtlty. And the edit was not reverted. Paul B 15:22, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] H. floresiensis, not microcephalic human
Current evidence suggests that Homo floresiensis was NOT microcephalic, and for that matter, NOT human. Although a section about the now largely resolved debate might be warranted in this article, I have deleted the paragraph previously in this article claiming unequivocally that H. floresiensis was microcephalic. I have seen pictures comparing the different brain sizes, and they are very convincing. A microcephalic brain looks nothing like a H. floresiensis brain, and is more similar to that of H. erectus.
Homo_floresiensis#Evidence_against_microcephaly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philolexica (talk • contribs) 05:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Diagnostic criteria
Are there any statistical data for skull circumference in adults (in particular communities) that would help determine whether someone who did not have a set of measurements plotted on a growth chart in childhood should be regarded as microcephalic? NRPanikker 16:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Definitions?
It seems to me that the same word is defined two different ways on this page, and it's confusing... I don't know enough about it to fix it, though. Anyone? Omgitsmonica 03:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Zip the Pinhead
On Zip the Pinhead's page it states several times that he was not microcephalic, though he was sometimes incorrectly thought to be. I'm going to remove him from the list of famous microcephalics, unless anyone has any objections. Shralk (talk) 06:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Current last sentence of first section
Suggest that mentioning a term to be discouraged actually preserves if not encourages it. 212.84.106.191 (talk) 11:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
