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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they must be for the size of our bodies. The mind uses twenty five percent of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became great in an exceedingly short amount of time in progression, allowing us to leave our cousins, the fantastic apes, behind. So the mind is special, right? Wrong, relating to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans are suffering from cognitive abilities that outstrip those of most other animals but not because we live evolutionary outliers. The mind was not designated to become amazing in its exclusive way, and it never halted being truly a primate brain. If we aren't an exclusion to the guidelines of progression, then what's the foundation of the individual advantage? Herculano-Houzel shows that it isn't the size of our brain that counts but the reality that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a far more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking food. Because we live primates, ingesting more calorie consumption in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a wide array of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex - the area of the brain accountable for finding habits, reasoning, expanding technology, and passing it on through culture. Herculano-Houzel shows us how she emerged to these conclusions - making "brain soup" to determine the amount of neurons in the mind, for example, and providing animal brains in a suitcase through customs. The Human Gain can be an engaging and original check out how exactly we became remarkable without ever before being special.
