
You’re pretty darn clever.
No, I’m not messing around. You are. I’m pretty darn clever too.
Humans are really quite smart. Our walnut-shaped heads house a brain several times larger than would be predicted for a species of our size but crucially with a much larger cerebral cortex. At some stage in human evolution this area grew significantly. Possibly down to the action of two little genes that are specific regulators of brain size (microcephalin and ASPM or abnormal spindle-like microcephaly associated, in case you were curious). We have incredibly advanced vision and forethought, social ability, reasoning, memory and problem solving ability. Nothing out there that we have discovered so far can touch us in terms of what may rightly be called “intelligence”. I think a beautiful example of our creative solution potential is that humans produce thousands and thousands more new songs than whales.
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