This One Thing Makes Humans Smarter Than Animals!

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]Human beings have a similar brain to all our neighbors in the animal kingdom. If you compare our brain to a horse brain, a dog brain, anything like that, it's the same general structures and stuff.

[00:00:11]But, what we have is much more of the wrinkly outer bit called the cortex, it's the outer 3 mm. And maybe we'll come back to why that matters so much, but the other thing that Mother Nature tweaked with us, it's small genetic tweaks, but we have much more plasticity, adaptability, such that when a horse drops into the world, it's doing the same thing that horses did 100,000 years ago. It's just, you know, eat, mate. But, when a human drops in the world, we learn everything that's happened before us, and then we springboard off the top of that. So, we, living in the 21st century, we say, "Oh, great, you know, physics, math, this, that, art, blah, blah, great. We got everything that's happened before us.

[00:00:51]Now, let's do our own thing." And that's what's so special about the plasticity of the human brain, the adaptability of it.