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It weighs about three pounds (1.4 kg), is about the size of a grapefruit, looks somewhat like a shelled walnut, and lies protected in the cranium.
At birth a child’s brain is only one fourth the weight it will be in adulthood. But in just two years the brain grows so rapidly that it reaches three fourths of its adult weight.
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