Broca’s and Wernicke's areas & the phonological loop

Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere.

We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop.

But why?

So we can—talk.

Thus chimpanzees can do this—we can’t: pic.twitter.com/CDznxg37p1

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) January 5, 2020