Plasticity of the brain: the key to human development.

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Presenter: Colin Blakemore

Published: April 2010

Age: 14-19 and upwards

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Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Royal Society


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How do our genes program the complexity of our brains? Why is human culture so much richer than that of the Great Apes? And how has human cognitive achievement continued to accelerate, when our genetic makeup has changed very little over the past 100,000 years?

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