Which of the following statements most aptly explains why human beings seem to be more advanced than other animals?
a. Human beings have more fully developed "higher functions" because we have a larger limbic system than other animals.
b. Human beings function in a more advanced way because are not are reliant on the activity of the hypothalamus as other animals are.
c. Animals do not have "higher" functions because they lack anything other than the basic structures of the human brainstem.
d. Although animals generally share the same brain structures as humans, humans have greater development in the structures that control advanced functions.
D
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