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In article <1991May4.190132.22684@agate.berkeley.edu> doug@eris.berkeley.edu (Doug Merritt) writes:


>Right. This, the discrediting of Penfield's interpretation of his
>experiments with electrical stimulation of the brain, and the discrediting
>of the "you only use 10% of all the parts of your brain", are probably the
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>three most important debunkings of things that "everyone knows" about the
>brain.

Could you fill in a non-biologist on how this was debunked?  Students
frequently mention this to me, and all I can say is that it doesn't
seem the least bit likely on evolutionary terms.