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contracycle · 07-16-2003, 04:49 AM

Hmm..... I'm more comfortable with there NOT being a particular marker. But I'm also comfortable with the idea that our intelligence is not astoundingly odd or special, and the distrance we percieve between ourselves and and the 'lower' animals is mostly hubris.

ps418 · 07-16-2003, 05:56 AM

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Originally posted by Pop_Quiz
So is there a particualr brain structure only humans possess? I was psyched to hear this (wherever/whenever it was) because it left out any "divine intervention" and expained how we are "more special" than the other animals without evoking omnipotent influence.

Well, it was thought for a long time that Broca's area was unique to humans. But that hypothesis seems to have gone the way of the hippocampus minor, with the demonstration of a homologue in chimpanzees.

I dont think you need to fall back on divine intervention though. Our brains are still remarkable.

Patrick

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contracycle Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Posts: 1,425	Hmm..... I'm more comfortable with there NOT being a particular marker. But I'm also comfortable with the idea that our intelligence is not astoundingly odd or special, and the distrance we percieve between ourselves and and the 'lower' animals is mostly hubris.

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