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Technique that involves turning the brain into ‘soup’ and counting the nuclei of nerve cells reveals that we’re 14bn short
“We found that on average the human brain has 86bn neurons. And not one [of the brains] that we looked at so far has the 100bn. Even though it may sound like a small difference the 14bn neurons amount to pretty much the number of neurons that a baboon brain has or almost half the number of neurons in the gorilla brain. So that’s a pretty large difference actually.”
(Source: Guardian)
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