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How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?

Closer To Truth

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The Effects of Damage on the Frontal Lobes

The human brain has in absolute terms more nervous than any other brain. Frontal function, at least revealed by the effects of damage to frontal lobes, seems to be at least in part inhibition of impulse. Most animals have their development compressed into a very short period of time. Human beings spend an awfully big part of their lives essentially continuing to mature and develop. But when you get to our age, it's over. Colin stresses the continuities.

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