Colin Blakemore believes the human brain became bigger through genetic accident and not evolution. Photograph: David Hartley / Rex FeaturesFrom The Guardian:
Oxford neurobiologist Colin Blakemore tells Robin McKie why he thinks a mutation in the human brain 200,000 years ago suddenly made us a super-intelligent species.
According to Woody Allen, it is his second favourite organ and it absorbs more than 25% of the energy that our bodies generate. But why? For what purposes did the human brain evolve and why does it take so much of our physiological resources?
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