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Your Brain Is Not What You Think It Is, with Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Evolution of the Linguistic System

The idea that lizards have circuitry for instincts, and then layered on top of that evolved the limbic system. And so there are a couple of things wrong with this view,. One is that we aren't the pinnacle of anything evolution didn't aim itself at us to use paraphrase wording from paleontologist Henry G. The evidence has been around for more than 50 years, and yet hasn't managed to percolate its way into psychology textbooks.

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