The Differentiating Part of Human Brains

Lizards and reptiles actually have something similar to a cortex. It's nothing like the giant white matter that we have. And you see very similar wiring there. So poor lizards, they're truly getting a bad rap. Also, our alligator is even lizards. Back in the serology episode, I asked lizard expert Aaron McGee about it. Alligators. They are lizards. No. Thank you for telling me that. But what I was going to say, which is one of those myth busting things. The pop culture reference to the lizard brain. Yes, yes. Okay. Let's debunk this flim flam really bothers me. What is the difference between white

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