Summary Of Secrets Of The Brain By Carl Zimmer

In 2014, the article “Secrets of The Brain” by Carl Zimmer was published in National Geographic. I am grateful I chose to study this article about the brain because it is simply mind blowing. Our brain is far more complicated then we put it out to be. Our knowledge is extremely limited and there is much work to do. Carl Zimmer lays out some of the knowledge that we do have about the brain but he mostly covered what we do not know and what scientists are working to understand. We as humans did not even begin to develop a real understanding of the brain until the 17th century. An anatomist named Thomas Willis discovered that the mushy blob of fat in our heads is not pointless, but the realm of our mental world.

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