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The Human AdvantageA New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable$
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The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9780262034258

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: September 2016

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034258.001.0001

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Brain Soup

Brain Soup

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(p.21) 2 Brain Soup
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The Human Advantage
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034258.003.0002

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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