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The field awaits a general unified theory of Neuroscience that might then allow its full integration into the accepted framework of Evolutionary Biology . Such a theory is expected to evolve from neuroscience once the phenomena of sensory Perception , Memory , visual Abstraction , intellectual abstraction (including Language , art and science) and emotional acceleration are synthesized into a theoretical whole. The resulting model is expected to roughly describe the human mind. The field of neuroscience is especially complex, and advances depend on the use of tremendous technological and scientific resources. As a realm of Biology , it is subject to the application of Charles 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 advantages of higher intelligence leave science to explain how, in an evolutionarily short span of time (approximately 6-10 million years; see Human Evolution ), humans were bequeathed with successively greater levels of neural complexity within an organ strikingly similar to the Primate brain. 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 humans and other animals brains. SEE ALSO
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