Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist based at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of six popular books about neuroscience, including The Human Advantage, published in 2016 by MIT Press.
Books by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
“What Herculano-Houzel does in this book is invent a way to actually count the number of brain cells in certain areas. You might think an elephant with a brain three times as big would have three times the number of brain cells. But it turns out, that’s not true. She figured out that, basically by turning the brain into soup—so you can’t do this on anything that’s alive—you can count the number of nuclei. And what she discovered is that, in the cortex, the thinking part of the brain, humans have three times as many neurons, as many brain cells, as elephants do, which is remarkable.” Read more...
Steven Austad, Biologist
Interviews with Suzana Herculano-Houzel
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Connectome
by Sebastian Seung -
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The Feeling of What Happens
by Antonio Damasio -
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham -
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease
by Daniel Lieberman -
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution
by Joseph Henrich
The best books on The Human Brain, recommended by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
The best books on The Human Brain, recommended by Suzana Herculano-Houzel
The human brain contains 86 billion neurons and burns a quarter of our energy intake. But it is by no means extraordinary, says Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Here, the Brazilian neuroscientist chooses five of the best books for understanding the complexities and connectivity of our most enigmatic organ.
Interviews where books by Suzana Herculano-Houzel were recommended
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Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair -
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Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches us About the Science of Healthy Eating
by David Raubenheimer & Stephen Simpson -
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The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
by Suzana Herculano-Houzel -
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Long for this World: The Strange Science of Immortality
by Jonathan Weiner -
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Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
The best books on Longevity, recommended by Steven Austad
The best books on Longevity, recommended by Steven Austad
The promises of potions or techniques to achieve longevity have been with us since time immemorial, the outlandishness of some claims matched only by our willingness to believe them. And, yet, today’s scientific research does give some clues on how to live longer and healthier lives. Biologist Steven Austad, Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research at the University of Alabama, recommends a range of books that give insight into longevity.
