Download e-book for iPad: The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain by Suzana Herculano-Houzel

By Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Humans are notable. Our brains are vast, seven occasions higher than they need to be for the scale of bodies. The human mind makes use of 25% of all of the power the physique calls for every day. And it grew to become huge, immense in a really brief period of time in evolution, permitting us to depart our cousins, the nice apes, in the back of. So the human mind is specific, correct? unsuitable, in response to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. people have built cognitive talents that outstrip these of all different animals, yet no longer simply because we're evolutionary outliers. The human mind was once no longer singled out to develop into awesome in its personal particular approach, and it by no means stopped being a primate mind. If we're not an exception to the principles of evolution, then what's the resource of the human advantage?Herculano-Houzel exhibits that it's not the scale of our mind that concerns however the undeniable fact that now we have extra neurons within the cerebral cortex than the other animal, due to our ancestors' invention, a few 1.5 million years in the past, of a extra effective technique to receive energy: cooking. simply because we're primates, consuming extra energy in much less time made attainable the quick acquisition of an incredible variety of neurons within the nonetheless quite small cerebral cortex -- the a part of the mind accountable for discovering styles, reasoning, constructing know-how, and passing it on via tradition. Herculano-Houzel indicates us how she got here to those conclusions -- making "brain soup" to figure out the variety of neurons within the mind, for instance, and bringing animal brains in a suitcase via customs. The Human Advantage is an interesting and unique examine how we turned striking with no ever being special.

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