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The field of neuroscience is especially complex and advances are dependent upon the use of tremendous technological and scientific resources. As a realm of Biology , it is subject to the application of Darwin's theories on Evolution and Adaptation . Recent neuroscience research has fostered speculation that Darwinian principles underlie the inherent plasticity of cortical relationships within the brain, affecting organisms on a Cognitive level, rather than simply on a genetic level. The evolutionary advantages of higher intelligence leaves science to explain how, in an evolutionarily short span of time (6-10 million years, approximately), our species was bequeathed with successively greater levels of neural complexity within an organ strikingly similar to the primate brain. A full investigation of evolution's role in fostering the tremendous capacities of the human brain would, presumably, fill the gap of knowledge regarding the differing abilities that distinguish high level primate brains from human brains. Dr. Temple Grandin is a well known expert in the field of animal cognition who has published numerous papers, and a book, which corroborate evidence on the evolutionary differences (and similarities) in higher cognition between human and animal brains. SEE ALSO
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