Claim CB929:

According to evolution, we do not evolve organs that are not adaptive. Therefore, evolution does not explain our using only one tenth of our brains.

Response:

  1. The belief that we use only ten percent of our brain is an urban legend and is false (Radford 2000). We use all of it.

Links:

Radford, Benjamin, 2000. Ten-percent myth. http://66.165.133.65/science/stats/10percnt.htm

References:

  1. Radford, Benjamin, 2000. (see above)

Further Reading:

Beyerstein, Barry, 1999. Mind Myths: exploring everyday mysteries of the mind, New York: John Wiley and Sons.
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