Everything Else . A lot of wrinkles seems to have more to do with what makes humans smarter than lower animals than with what might have made Einstein smarter than you.
Lower animals have smoother brains, apparently for evolutionary reasons.
Cognitive brain activity takes place in cells in thin surface layers of the cerebral cortex, and skull size did not increase as fast as brain complexity did as the species evolved. Convoluted human brains pack a larger surface area into a small container. Human intelligence appears to be related to the branching of brain cells and the formation of complex links between them, not the shape of the platform where the links take place. The condition is caused by the failure of developing nerve cells to migrate normally. As for Einstein, recent studies of his preserved brain suggest that his intelligence may actually have been related in part to the absence of a fissure in a brain area involved in mathematical thinking, the inferior parietal lobe.