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=Dr. Michael Bamshad, Division Chief and Professor, Division of Genetic Medicine, Pediatrics at the University of Washington, explores how evolutionary processes and demographic history have shaped patterns of genetic variation among humans, and how such variation influences differences in physical features and disease susceptibility among humans. Series: CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny [5/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 18707]= = [|The Evolution of Human Biodiversity: Race Ancestry Genomes] = =[|DNA : The Human Race PBS]= = [|The Evolution of Human Biodiversity: The Human Brain] = = [|Nature Matters: Conservation and the Futures of Life] = =[|On Beyond: Biology and the Future]= =[|Evolution of Mind and Brain]= Each animal specie has own brain that is hardwired. Why? In terms of cost and benefits, learning costs a lot. If hardwired, then no learning is necessary and it is cost saving. On the other hand, for a cricket requires constant learning to find food in different places. So it does not need hardwired brain. Already learned may not be beneficial and thus lesser brain there is. =[|DNA : Playing God (PBS)]= PBS Documentary List: @http://tinyurl.com/68vjzhn = [|The Brain Our Universe Within : The Miraculous Mind] = It uses computer animation to explain the roles of cells, neurons, endorphins, the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, and the hypothalamus in transmitting, receiving, and storing information. = [|The Brain Our Universe Within : Matter Over Mind] = Matter over Mind, the human brain appeared on earth some five million years ago. It took just a few million more to fully mature, a mere blink on the geological time scale. Structurally, anatomically, the human brain has not changed much in about two hundred thousand years. It is the same brain used by the first Homo sapiens to walk the planet. But what has evolved is the mind. And it is this inner universe that has so mystified and beguiled us. The mind, together with the brain, forms the most complex system known to man.