Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
by restalis on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:35AM
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I am a little disappointed to find no comparison to the dolphin brain in the talk about the number of neurons! Why elephant? If it was about the size it could have been the animal with the largest brain out there (which happens to be a cetacean, like dolphins)!
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Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
by omalleyt on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:01AM
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Yup! And the article incorrectly states that humans have more cortical neurons than any other animal. Pilot whales (a misnomer, they're dolphins) have more cortical neurons than humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
Which is especially important because the article takes as given that the number of cortical neurons is what makes humans special.
Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
by retupmoc01 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:25AM
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wikipedia doesn't always have all the answers: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151110-evolution-of-big-bra...
Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains
by bostonpete on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @12:28PM
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The comparison to elephants was made to illustrate the fact that number of neurons isn't closely correlated with brain size. Seemed like a reasonable point of comparison to me.