Our 86 Billion Neurons: She Showed It | by Steven Mithen | The New York Review of Books

March 5, 2022

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/24/86-billion-neurons-herculano-houzel/#:~:text=Suzana%20Herculano%2DHouzel%20suggests%20that,matter%20in%20the%20human%20brain.
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While the cooking of food arises only toward the end of this “brain by numbers” book, the making of “brain soup” is its main concern. In 2004, Herculano-Houzel devised a way of reducing brains to liquid as a means to count the number of neurons in them.
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