One theory proposes that the brain evolved from a ring of neurons around the oral opening of ancient hydra like multicellular organisms. Neural control over a body's ability to obtain food increasingly made feeding less passive and more aggressive, and launched the eternal struggle between eat or be eaten. Over billions of individual lifetimes, the balance between the need to eat and the need not to be eaten shaped the bodies and behaviors of all living things.
A second theory proposes that as our direct ancestors mastered the ability to throw stones, they gained a tremendous advantage over both their predators and their prey. Individual survival improves proportionately to the distance from danger. The ability of the human brain to calculate spatial distances, and then coordinate the firing of neurons and the twitching of muscle fibers to launch an object and hit a target, may be the decisive reason humans survived into existence.
So kudos to Illinois and UW - Milwaukee for a great basketball game tonight. On to the Elite Eight Fighting Illini, and excellent effort from the beer town boys. Stay tuned tomorrow for the Badgers and let's hope they can hit at least 53% from behind the arc.
A second theory proposes that as our direct ancestors mastered the ability to throw stones, they gained a tremendous advantage over both their predators and their prey. Individual survival improves proportionately to the distance from danger. The ability of the human brain to calculate spatial distances, and then coordinate the firing of neurons and the twitching of muscle fibers to launch an object and hit a target, may be the decisive reason humans survived into existence.
So kudos to Illinois and UW - Milwaukee for a great basketball game tonight. On to the Elite Eight Fighting Illini, and excellent effort from the beer town boys. Stay tuned tomorrow for the Badgers and let's hope they can hit at least 53% from behind the arc.
