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The Deep History of Ourselves
When we think about the brain, I think a lot of us make the mistake of thinking that whenever evolution shaped our brains or natural selection shaped our brains, it made us better. No species is better than any other. It's just that they're different. So there's nothing difficult to understand about differences. Sometimes we have trouble putting our differences in perspective. We sometimes attribute too much to animals, and sometimes attribute too little to them,. But anyway, yeah, so where were we?So yeah, so tell us about why neocortex versus like... Yeah, it was not better.