Interesting NPR story: the human brain (not MS related)

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:46 am

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =129027124

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:10 pm

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:50 pm

I found that interesting, too - how the brain has been built upon over the (millions of) years. Thought the ice-cream scoop analogy was kinda funny.

There's another link with that story that theorizes how eating meat led to brain development in humans.

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:45 pm

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:50 pm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =128849908

I can't vouch for the veracity of this theory. Actually, to me is sounds like
a bit of a stretch.

It looks like NPR has been doing a whole series on the evolution of man:

http://www.npr.org/

See the link near the middle top of the page.

Lyon · Post by **Lyon** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:49 pm

scorpion · Post by **scorpion** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:08 pm

I wonder if our brains are close to "maxing out" out as far as evolution goes or is there still room for other major developments. I mean self-consciousness is a fairly new development as far as evolution goes. Could there be another level of consciousness are brains have not yet evolved too?