BS 181 Sir Simon Baron-Cohen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
The Evolution of the Human Brain
i wanted to ask you about the u k. Brain study, how is it that we actually came to have these five different types of brains? You might have imagined that the optimal kind of brain that evolution would have come up with would be the balanced brain where individuals were equally good at ampathy and systemising. But when we look at the frequencies in the population, that most people are specialized in one direction or another. So that suggests that natural selection may have favoured individuals who specialized either to the world of peop navigating the social environment very easily with peoples skulls,. Or natural selection favored brains that could understand objects and how they worked.
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