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Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains by omalleyt on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:01AM (#10547277)
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.

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Re:How Humans Evolved Supersize Brains by retupmoc01 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:25AM (#10554105)
wikipedia doesn't always have all the answers: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151110-evolution-of-big-bra...
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