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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: human advantage
    sub title: a new understanding of how our brain became remarkable
  name:
    name part: Herculano-Houzel, Suzana
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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 cooking for your neurons -- ... But plenty of neurons are not enough -- Epilogue : our place in nature -- Appendix A: Body mass, brain mass, and number of neurons -- Appendix B: Scaling rules.
  note: Suzana Herculano-Houzel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Brain
    topic: Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Intellect
  subject:
    topic: Brain
    topic: physiology
  subject:
    topic: Mental Processes
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Evolution
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Human Anatomy & Physiology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Life Sciences
    topic: Neuroscience
  classification: QP398 .H524 2016
  classification: 612.8/2
  classification: 2016 E-348
  classification: WL 337
  identifier: 9780262034258
  identifier: 0262034255
  identifier: 2015038399
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 151204
    record change date: 20170926115125.0
    record identifier: in00003849898