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A young brain builds far more connections than it keeps, and growing up includes losing them.
Biology Facts, sourced to NCBI Bookshelf: Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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What it means
Development overproduces on purpose. Far more neurons are made than survive, and the ones that live are those that reach a target and get the chemical support that comes with arriving. Connections work the same way: a great excess is formed, and those that carry useful traffic are strengthened while the rest are pruned away. That is not waste but how the wiring gets matched to a body and a world that no blueprint could specify.
The claim comes from NCBI Bookshelf: Molecular Biology of the Cell.
- SourceNCBI Bookshelf: Molecular Biology of the Cell
- CollectionBiology Facts
- Difficultyhard
- Length76 letters, 21 of them different
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