Textbooks did not tell most students that.
Tag: neurons
Some features of bird brains are remarkably similar to those of mammal brains
Are certain brain structures are essential for high animal intelligence or will alternative structures work?
Researchers: Human neurons mature more slowly than those of chimpanzees and macaques
Interesting but not really a surprise because humans mature more slowly generally and live longer. No big news here that accounts for human uniqueness.
Motor nerves turn out to need “expert guidance”
And it all happens without intelligence of any kind? “Expert guidance” without experts?
Are there “dark” neurons in the brain left over from a “Jurassic Park” past?
Notice that the neurons aren’t being called “junk neurons,” as in the exploded concept of vast libraries of “junk DNA.” Quite the contrary, they are given the somewhat glamorous cachet of “dark” neurons, as in “dark matter.” Perhaps something has been learned from the collapse of the concept of “junk DNA.”