Mind blown: Researchers rethink neuroscience
Five researchers overturning conventional wisdom, assumptions, classic research, stereotypes and much more
Humans are smart — and have been for some time. Recent findings suggest that agriculture started in a primitive form up to 30,000 years ago. There’s evidence of successful brain surgery being done in France over 8,000 years ago. Eratosthenes, the chief librarian for the great library of Alexandria, used the shadows cast by trees in different locations to calculate the circumference of the Earth more than two thousand years before the first object was sent into space.
Today, we’re wirelessly connected to the largest information database in history via pocket rectangles, and millions of people around the world are right now utilizing metal boxes powered by explosions just to get to work.
It’s not hard to look back across history, take stock of human achievement and feel a special kind of intelligent. Nature bestowed upon homo sapiens sapiens a high-octane, calorie-guzzling super brain, and we’ve used it to forge metal, cure disease, explore the heavens and Earth, split atoms, map genomes and much, much more…
Read the full story (that I wrote and am pretty proud of) at unr.edu
