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So maybe it’s not really about the hardware after all, but the software? e.g. Linux vs Windows on the same computer.
by Razengan 5y ago
So maybe it’s not really about the hardware after all, but the software?
e.g. Linux vs Windows on the same computer.
- robwwilliams 5y agoRight! It is all about software, and that in turn is all about culture. That should have been clear long ago but we keep looking for a more rigid mechanistic source of human exceptionalism. This review clears the air. Lovely! You can also read my 1988 review: The Control of Neuron Number that is cited in Suzana Herculano—Houzel’s Frontiers paper. The older Annual Review is open access here: http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html And brain microevolution is definitely mosaic as shown by in a 2012 Nature Communications paper; https://pubmed.ncbi.nih.gov/23011133 https://pubmed.ncbi.nih.gov/23011133 My only tweak to this review would be to note that variation WITHIN species is actually close to 2-fold when sample size includes many individuals—100 or more. This is the case in quantitative studies of mice, and this is likely true for humans too.