TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herculano-Houzel,Suzana
TI  - The human advantage: a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable 
SN  - 9780262333214
AV  - QP398 .H524 2016
U1  - 612.8/2 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Brain
KW  - Physiology
KW  - Intellect
KW  - Human information processing
KW  - Central nervous system
KW  - Nervous system
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Humans
KW  - Mental Processes
KW  - Psychological Phenomena and Processes
KW  - Central Nervous System
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Nervous System
KW  - physiology
KW  - Intelligence
KW  - Cerveau
KW  - Physiologie
KW  - Traitement de l'information chez l'être humain
KW  - Système nerveux central
KW  - Système nerveux
KW  - Anatomie
KW  - Êtres humains
KW  - brains
KW  - aat
KW  - anatomy
KW  - Homo sapiens (species)
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Human Anatomy & Physiology
KW  - fast
KW  - Gehirn
KW  - gnd
KW  - Hirnfunktion
KW  - Evolution
KW  - NEUROSCIENCE/General
KW  - Internet Resources
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; Humans rule! --; Brain soup --; Got brains? --; Not all brains are made the same --; Remarkable but not extraordinary --; The elephant in the room --; What cortical expansion --; A body matter? --; So how much does it cost? --; Brains or brawn : you can't have both --; Thank the kitchen for your neurons --; But plenty of neurons are not enough --; Epilogue : our place in nature
N2  - "Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals, but not because we are evolutionary outliers. The human brain was not singled out to become amazing in its own exclusive way, and it never stopped being a primate brain. If we are not an exception to the rules of evolution, then what is the source of the human advantage? Herculano-Houzel shows that it is not the size of our brain that matters but the fact that we have more neurons in the cerebral cortex than any other animal, thanks to our ancestors' invention, some 1.5 million years ago, of a more efficient way to obtain calories: cooking. Because we are primates, ingesting more calories in less time made possible the rapid acquisition of a huge number of neurons in the still fairly small cerebral cortex--the part of the brain responsible for finding patterns, reasoning, developing technology, and passing it on through culture. Herculano-Houzel shows us how she came to these conclusions--making "brain soup" to determine the number of neurons in the brain, for example, and bringing animal brains in a suitcase through customs. The Human Advantage is an engaging and original look at how we became remarkable without ever being special"--MIT CogNet
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