«The reason we have more
neurons than any other animal alive is that cooking allowed this qualitative change — this step increase in brain size,» she says.
Not exact matches
Detecting Arc inside a
neuron, in
other words, shows that a memory had just been activated inside it less
than five minutes before the
animal's death.
Perhaps even more intriguing, our astrocytes are enormous compared with the astrocytes of
other animals — 20 times larger
than rodent astrocytes — and they make contact with millions of
neurons apiece.