Human Advantage Herculano-Houzel Suzana Associate Professor Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Human Advantage Herculano-Houzel Suzana Associate Professor Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of…
Specifikacia Human Advantage Herculano-Houzel Suzana Associate Professor Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Human Advantage Herculano-Houzel Suzana Associate Professor Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.Humans are awesome. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies.
So the human brain is special, right? And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel.
Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals, but not because we are evolutionary outliers. The human brain was not singled out to become amazing in its own exclusive way, and it never stopped being a primate brain. If we are not an exception to the rules of evolution, then what is the source of the human
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