A brief history of the brain An amazing feature in New Scientist explores how brains came into being, from the days of single-celled organisms and chemical signals to the modern human brain and its capacity for abstract artistic thought. Don’t miss this one. How did we acquire our beautiful brains? How did the savage struggle for survival produce such an extraordinary object? This is a difficult question to answer, not least because brains do not fossilise. Thanks to the latest technologies, though, we can now trace the brain’s evolution in unprecedented detail, from a time before the very first nerve cells right up to the age of cave art and cubism. (via New Scientist, image via foxtongue on Flickr)
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A brief history of the brain

An amazing feature in New Scientist explores how brains came into being, from the days of single-celled organisms and chemical signals to the modern human brain and its capacity for abstract artistic thought. Don’t miss this one.

How did we acquire our beautiful brains? How did the savage struggle for survival produce such an extraordinary object? This is a difficult question to answer, not least because brains do not fossilise. Thanks to the latest technologies, though, we can now trace the brain’s evolution in unprecedented detail, from a time before the very first nerve cells right up to the age of cave art and cubism.

(via New Scientist, image via foxtongue on Flickr)

Source: newscientist.com

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