Many of us will blame our most instinctual behaviors, impulses, and drives on the vestigial, reptilian parts of our brains. My lizard brain made me do it! What is the science and evolution behind this impulsive little humunculous? 

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Links and References: 

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/managing-your-memory/201712/don-t-listen-your-lizard-brain
2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/where-addiction-meets-your-brain/201404/your-lizard-brain
3. https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain/brain-anatomy/limbic-system
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4406946/
5. https://www.earth.com/news/differences-in-the-mammalian-and-reptilian-brain-revealed/
6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/triune-brain
7. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/brain-the-inside-story/your-emotional-brain/beyond-our-lizard-brain
8. https://www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience/10x_sptl_so_no-we-dont-have-a-lizard-brain/
9. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/study-finds-classically-mammalian-brain-region-reptilian-brains/
10. https://brain.mpg.de/88758/research-labs
11. https://www.sciencealert.com/you-dont-actually-have-a-lizard-brain-evolutionary-study-reveals
12. https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/carl-sagan-reptile-brain/

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