Scientists Just Challenged a 70-Year-Old Myth About the Human Brain
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Research published in Science Advances challenges the 70-year-old 'triune brain' theory by showing brain evolution is driven by two distinct wiring strategies—spatially organized circuits and distributed networks that expand and shrink together—rather than the familiar 'rational human brain stacked on top of a primitive lizard brain' model.
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