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Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (The Human Advantage) - Hardcover

Herculano-Houzel, Suzana

 
9780262034258: Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (The Human Advantage)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0262034255 ISBN 13: 9780262034258
Verlag: MIT Press, 2016

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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? 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 advantage?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Biological Sciences and Associate Director for Communications of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute at Vanderbilt University.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262034255
ISBN 13 
9780262034258
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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