This one almost speaks for itself…
Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant
Scans of the 44-year-old man’s brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue.
“He was a married father of two children, and worked as a civil servant,” Dr. Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.
French Civil Service – Geniuses need not apply.
Ok, ok. It was a funny story. But, I have to step back and say one serious thing about it. This story does prove that the human body can do amazing things to make up for serious short comings.
As one of those interviewed for the Reuters story on this amazing Frenchman’s case said:
“If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side…”
Amazingly, this man was able to lead a pretty normal life. He had a job, got married, had kids, yet he functioned with only a tiny percentage of the brain matter that the normal human exists with.
He is the sort of human that an abortion advocate would have murdered in his infancy. Yet, left to his own he was able to thrive and have a very fulfilling life.
So much for an “unviable clump of cells”, eh?