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Our 86 Billion Neurons: She Showed It
We evolved and learned a clever trick in our evolutionary past in order to find the time to feed our neuron-packed brains
The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
November 24, 2016 issue