Aside from the fact that in this case neither of them shows any sign of neural activity. After all, it's been sitting in a cafeteria-size mayonnaise jar full of formaldehyde for 44 years, taking up precious cardboard box space in the Kansas office of Dr. Thomas Harvey. Harvey is the doctor who performed the autopsy on Einstein, saving the brain even though he didn't have permission. A couple of years ago, doing his best Calvin Coolidge imitation, Dr. Harvey sent a one-sentence fax to McMaster University in Canada asking if they wanted to check out the cool brain he had. After all, they already had one of the world's largest collections of brain samples.
Some people collect thimbles.
Some Beanie Babies. In Hamilton, Ontario they figured brains would be a fun thing to amass. Home and Garden Television claims 52 percent of the men they surveyed prefer to spend their leisure time doing gardening and landscaping while 47 percent would rather have sex. That's how a team of neuroscientists ended up going over Einstein's brain with a fine tooth comb, which is more than he ever did with his hair when he was alive. It turns out that his brain is very much like yours and mine only much, much smarter.