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Right! 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 s
by robwwilliams 5y ago
Right! 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.