In humans, on Sapolsky’s view, the frontal cortex develops much later than the rest of the brain, and is less determined by genetics (and developmentally later than in comparatively complex other animals that also have a frontal cortex) to account for the complexity of human society and the rules it must learn and account for to survive.
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