Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Debunking the Big Brain Myth

Just because we’ve got bigger brains doesn’t mean we’ve got a leg up on the rest of the animal kingdom, concludes new research from Queen Mary, University of London, and Cambridge University. Researchers claim that with the aid of computer generated models, they have determined even remarkably small sized brains are capable of consciousness—with as little as a few hundred nerve cells doing the job.

Apparently, size doesn’t matter so much as we’d like to think. TheSource: Geeks are Sexy RSS Feed

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