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Old 12-12-2004, 10:52 AM   #47
OnyxCougar
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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter
The brain can be roughly broken down into three portions:

1) "lizard brain" or the limbic system, it controls our basic needs, the three F's; feeding, fighting and sex

2) "mammalian brain" or the intermediate cortical tissues deal with memory and less simplistic responses to a changing environment

3) "primate brain" or the frontal lobe is what makes us human, advanced (hopefully) reasoning, nuclear weapons and such

Oh please. I won't get into it here, but I'm not buying the whole "evolutionary brain" argument. No one has ever seen a normal human brain that didn't have all the parts normal human brains have now.
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