As brains become larger over evolutionary time, they reorganize

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A note for Lesson no. 1, "You Have One Brain (Not Three)," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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It turns out that as brains become larger over evolutionary time, they reorganize.

The appendix adds:

...the neurobiologist Georg Striedter [...] likened brains to companies, which reorganize to scale up their business.

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References

  1. ↑ Striedter, Georg. 2005. Principles of Brain Evolution. Sunderland, Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates.
  2. ↑ Gee, Henry. 2018. Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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