The human advantage : a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
2016.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780262333214 026233321X 9780262333207 0262333201 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Humans rule!
- Brain soup
- Got brains?
- Not all brains are made the same
- Remarkable but not extraordinary
- The elephant in the room
- What cortical expansion
- A body matter?
- So how much does it cost?
- Brains or brawn : you can't have both
- Thank the kitchen for your neurons
- But plenty of neurons are not enough
- Epilogue : our place in nature.