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Evolution of the Brain: Three Functional Layers

angerinworkplace.blogspot.com — Very, very early in evolutionary history, simple "beings" had brainstems that regulated autonomic function and kept them alive. Human beings still have a brainstem, located just above the spinal cord, which tells our lungs to breathe and our hearts to beat. Similar in architecture to the brainstem of reptiles, the human brainstem it is sometimes ca

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  • atruskot, on 09/06/2008, -0/+1I think it's somewhat difficult to summarize the evolution of the human brain in three paragraphs...
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