Chimp vs. human brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 08, 2012, 01:28 (4166 days ago)

It is not that ours is four times larger in 6-8 million years. There have been major reorganizations and modifications, as shown in new studies of paleoneurology:-"Many neo-Darwinists seem to be under the completely false impression that the human brain is merely a scaled-up, more powerful version of the chimpanzee brain. Nothing could be further from the truth: the two brains are radically different. In addition to the massive growth in the human brain over the last three million years, there have also been massive reorganizational changes in the human brain, which are not easy to account for on a Darwinian paradigm. The major reorganizational changes, which are listed in the paper,"Evolution of the Brain in Humans ... Paleoneurology" by Ralph Holloway, Chet Sherwood, Patrick Hof and James Rilling (in The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Springer, 2009, pp. 1326-1334), include the following: -(1) Reduction of primary visual striate cortex, area 17, and relative increase in posterior parietal cortex, between 2.0 and 3.5 million years ago; -(2) Reorganization of the frontal lobe (Third inferior frontal convolution, Broca's area, widening prefrontal), between 1.8 and 2.0 million years ago; -(3) Cerebral asymmetries in the left occipital, right-frontal petalias, arising between 1.8 and 2.0 million years ago; and -(4) Refinements in cortical organization to a modern Homo pattern (1.5 million years ago to present)."-http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/could-the-internet-ever-be-conscious-definitely-not-before-2115-even-if-youre-a-materialist/-http://www.columbia.edu/~rlh2/2009.Holloway_Sherwood_Hof_Rilling.sm.pdf-We "R not chimps. Even if we look somewhat alike. I'm not even sure we should be classifed as primates, based on our form of consciousness..