They are the building blocks for the brain. When we gained access to more protein, our cortex expanded rapidly.
2014: The Year in Science
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They are the building blocks for the brain. When we gained access to more protein, our cortex expanded rapidly.
answer the question tho, what is your definition of consciousness?
the basal state of one's perceptive faculties?
The next question would be why all of out the other predators – who probably got more proteins than humans did through a better diet made possible by their physical attributes – didn't develop the same, or even just more similar, mental faculties, but I suspect the answer is in our brain's capabilities to develop said building blocks. I just can't shake the thought that nature wise humans are a strange anomaly...well, even our planet is a strange anomaly within our solar system. So I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
Or maybe we're very similar to other organisms (including insects) and I'm just having problems acknowledging it.
Brain gyrification
Good looks on the pointer breh, this was definitely a piece of info I was looking for.
The fields of study are so vast, I often don't know where to look for to get directly what I need. Wish I could rep but I'm on red with you for now breh.
@Poitier Also, check out what I just found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3289949/
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