
Why 16 billion cortical neurons are not enough by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Humanity has come quite some way in the past 200,000 years but are we really anything more than primates with a few million more neurons than our closest relatives? Read by Leighton Pugh.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-16-billion-cortical-neurons-are-not-enough/
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