[NRSC 335] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Early hominids: three mill year old skull from australopithecus africanus has distinct cranial fractures, dart (1893) suggested fractures resulted from a club wound to back of head, majority of baboon skulls at site show similar skull fractures. S uggests early hominids knew brain was a vital organ. E arly ancestors had some appreciation that the brain was linked with mental function: burr holes - now routine procedure to relieve pressure on, trephination brain. E dwin s mith s urgical p apyrus. S mith purchased in 1862: translated in 1920, r eferences to head injuries. Liver, kidneys, and intestines were removed and preserved against a feather) P roponent of mental faculties emerging from heart: heart = quick, moving, alive, warm heart was more consistent with soul than cold brain, brain may serve to cool blood. S oul is what drives mental function: thought soul was composed of three parts.
