Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What Is So Special About the Human Brain? | Talk Video & Analysis, transcripts | TED.com
Experimentation with the human brain, by Suzana, taken from TED; Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain? | Talk Video | TED.com : Cooking OUR Food made Us HUMAN Super interesting way of understanding the human brain: 86 Billion NEURONS, in Kilos,1.2 KILOS, that is 2% of the body weight. Suzana puts on her detective's cap and leads us through this mystery. By making "brain soup," she arrives at a startling conclusion. What is so special about the human brain? Why is it that we study other animals instead of them studying us? What does a human brain have or do that no other brain does? When I became interested in these questions about 10 years ago, scientists thought they knew what different brains were made of. Though it was based on very little evidence, many scientists thought that all mammalian brains, including the human brain, were made in the same way, with a number of neu...