NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Louis Agassiz, Brain Size, Blood Vessel
12 Jan 2013
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There was a distinction between animals and humans based on the size of. Nats 1860 note 10 the head and brain: what does this have to do with our humanness, emotion = neocortex has the ability to process and manage emotion. People with lesions behave in a way where there is an irrepressible emotion that becomes over whelming. Can we attribute characteristics to groups based on their physical structures: in a patriarchal society there will be an urge to look for a brain feature that illustrates the social principle of sexism. This can have neutral or negative effects. Such as preconceived idea that women are less intelligent than men, therefore, the weight of brains might find that male brains are heavier than female brain: women have less brain matter, therefore are less intelligent. Frontal lobes are connected to intellect: the ability to make judgments and decisions.
