Why Your Brain Is In Your Head
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[MUSIC] In the animal kingdom, just about wherever we find brains, they're wrapped in heads. But being so important, you'd think that evolution would have ... I dunno, looked after the brain a bit better. It just doesn't make sense that we wrap our most vital hunk of tissue in this thin candy shell, dangling out in the open where any low-hanging doorway or fastball can crack it like an egg. BUT, when ya think about it there's a lot about the human body that doesn't immediately make sense. We breathe through the same hole we eat with, we grow more teeth than we can fit in our mouths, we built our amusement park next to the garbage dump... To craft this brain story, we're going to need some help. And we need to head back to the beg...
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[MUSIC] In the animal kingdom, just about wherever we find brains, they're wrapped in heads. But being so important, you'd think that evolution would have ... I dunno, looked after the brain a bit better. It just doesn't make sense that we wrap our most vital hunk of tissue in this thin candy shell, dangling out in the open where any low-hanging doorway or fastball can crack it like an egg. BUT, when ya think about it there's a lot about the human body that doesn't immediately make sense. We breathe through the same hole we eat with, we grow more teeth than we can fit in our mouths, we built our amusement park next to the garbage dump... To craft this brain story, we're going to need some help. And we need to head back to the beg...
