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10.31.2009
The Origin Of The Brain
Categories: Psychology

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Macro of a large boulder of Symmetrical Brain Coral (Diplora strigosa) by laszlo-photo on Flickr.

“The human brain contains over 100 billion neurons, and roughly 1 quintillion synapses. But how did it all get started? How did the first nervous systems, the first brains evolve? How did a bunch of simple cells evolve into a biological computer?”


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    November 4, 2009 at 2:48 pm

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