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The secrets of the brain. An evolutionary perspective on neuroscience
Ester Desfilis, Loreta Medina
Abstract
Understanding the brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges, and a fundamental aspiration of human beings. Why is this organ, made of a little over a kilogram of fatty tissue, so special? The answer is obvious: our brain is the place where thoughts and emotions originate, where our behaviour is generated and our memory lives; that is to say, it is the place our identity inhabits. Our brain cannot be replaced (unlike our kidneys, liver or heart). You are your brain.
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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.21094
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