- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Humans Rule!
- 2 Brain Soup
- 3 Got Brains?
- 4 Not All Brains Are Made the Same
- 5 Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary
- 6 The Elephant in the Room
- 7 What Cortical Expansion?
- 8 A Body Matter?
- 9 So How Much Does It Cost?
- 10 Brains or Brawn: You Can’t Have Both
- 11 Thank Cooking for Your Neurons
- 12 … But Plenty of Neurons Aren’t Enough
- Epilogue: Our Place in Nature
- Appendix A: Body Mass, Brain Mass, and Number of Neurons
- Appendix B: Scaling Rules
- References
- Index
Brain Soup
Brain Soup
- Chapter:
- (p.21) 2 Brain Soup
- Source:
- The Human Advantage
- Author(s):
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Why two brains of similar size probably don’t have similar numbers of neurons; 100 billion neurons in the human brain as an order-of-magnitude estimate; how to count cells in a brain; how to turn brains into soup
Keywords: Brain soup, isotropic fractionator, stereology
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Humans Rule!
- 2 Brain Soup
- 3 Got Brains?
- 4 Not All Brains Are Made the Same
- 5 Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary
- 6 The Elephant in the Room
- 7 What Cortical Expansion?
- 8 A Body Matter?
- 9 So How Much Does It Cost?
- 10 Brains or Brawn: You Can’t Have Both
- 11 Thank Cooking for Your Neurons
- 12 … But Plenty of Neurons Aren’t Enough
- Epilogue: Our Place in Nature
- Appendix A: Body Mass, Brain Mass, and Number of Neurons
- Appendix B: Scaling Rules
- References
- Index