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Questions スザーナ・エルクラーノ=アウゼル: 人の脳は、何がそんなに特別なのでしょうか?

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

  1. How many neurons are there in the human brain?
  2.  Are brains made the same way?
  3. How heavy is the human brain?
  4. How many calories do we need to keep our brain working?
  1. So what is the human advantage?
  2. What’s the probability that made us human?
  3.  Based on the talked what is animal should be compared to humans and why?
  4. Why should the rules of evolution apply to everybody else but not to us?
  5.  What was the theory of Charles Darwin about the human brain?
  6. How did we come by this remarkable number of neurons, and in particular, if great apes are larger than we are, why don’t they have a larger brain than we do, with more neurons?

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

 

  1. What is it that makes the human brain so special?
  2. Why do we study other animals and they don’t study us?
  3. What is it about the human brain that allows the cognitive ability for abstract reasoning and creativeness?
  4. Is there an intelligence relationship in the size of an animal’s brain to the size of its body?
  5. What happened in our evolutionary process that made human brains so proportionately larger?
  6. So what do we do that no other creature does?
  7. Which came first, our intelligence or our human body?
  8. She said that the first cooks were animals.

Assume them to be baboons. If so, can baboons cook today?

  1. What do you think of the brain?
  2. Do you do anything to look after your brain?
  3. How much of your brain do you use?
  4. What do neuroscientists know about the brain?
  5. What do neuroscientists want to know about the brain?
  6. How is the brain structured?
  7. Who is the brains of your family?
  8. What are some extraordinary things some people can do with their brains?
  9. What does your brain do that you hate?
  10. Do you think humans will ever completely understand the brain? Why or why not?
  11. What is the most amazing thing about the brain?
  12. Do you think male and female brains are better at different tasks? Why or why not?

 

Part 3 (Activity):     Vocabulary Match

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