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TWiEVO 82: A genetic hack for the human brain

This Week in Evolution

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The Benefits of More Neurons in Human Brain Evolution

It feels right that having more of these neurons could be useful for cognition, but we still haven't actually seen any evidence of that. We've seen more neurons and whether that's sort of a key, um, you know, advance or even a incremental advance in human brain evolution is still an open question. It looks right, but you want to be a little careful not to kind of to affirm.

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