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Lisa Feldman Barrett — Why does the brain exist? (EP.82)

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The Most Important Job of Your Brain

The most important job of your brain is to regulate the systems of your body. If you go back 550 million years ago, animals didn't have brains. They got along pretty well without brains. And there's a really interesting narrative about how brains evolved and potentially even why they evolved.

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