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"IIRC there are something like 50 different areas of the brain that are continuously being permuted in size with each next generation." I'd be really intereste

"IIRC there are something like 50 different areas of the brain that are continuously being permuted in size with each next generation." I'd be really interested by a source on that.

yourapostasy 10y ago
Not exactly what OP mentioned, but [1] is a potential starting point to look into. I didn't even know there were functional (as opposed to morphological) areas of the brain already mapped to a precision that size could be accurately compared between samplings, but there seems to be some MRI-based work on that [2]. Anything I could find on the changes between generations of the functional areas of the brain are along the lines of [3], at evolutionary time scales instead of successive generations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_brain [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705206/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705206/ [3] http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/publications/annurev.anthro.35.pdf http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/publications/annurev.anthro...