The Human Advantage:A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

This book by Suzana Herculano-Houzel provides a summary of her discoveries that have challenged the prevailing view that the human brain is an evolutionary outlier and is extraordinarily large for its body, which is considered to be the key reason behind its ability to perform extraordinarily complex cognitive tasks. Instead, she suggests that the human advantage lies in the sheer number of neurons in the cerebral cortex, made possible because of our ability to cook food.