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I never said anything about the human brain being a static organ. I honestly have no clue where you got that from. I said there are parts of it that are there from the day you\'re born until the day you day, which should be fairly uncontroversial. It\'s not the bit about parts of your body replenishing themselves that has no basis in fact-- that should be pretty self-evident to anyone who\'s ever had a haircut-- but the supposed seven-year-cycle, which is an invention of popular imagination.
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I never said anything about the human brain being a static organ. I honestly have no clue where you got that from. I said there are parts of it that are there from the day you\\\'re born until the day you die, which should be fairly uncontroversial. It\\\'s not the bit about parts of your body replenishing themselves that has no basis in fact-- that should be pretty self-evident to anyone who\\\'s ever had a haircut-- but the supposed seven-year-cycle, which is an invention of popular imagination.
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* A popular urban legend has it that the human body replaces all of its cells (in some versions, all of its atoms) every seven years. While cells of the human body continually die off and are replaced with new ones, they do so at different rates, and there are exceptions such as neurons in the brain and parts of the skeletal structure. The supposed \
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* A popular urban legend has it that the human body replaces all of its cells (in some versions, all of its atoms) every seven years. While cells of the human body continually die off and are replaced with new ones, they do so at different rates, and there are exceptions such as neurons in the brain and parts of the skeletal structure. The supposed \\\"seven-year-cycle\\\" is an invention of the popular imagination and has no basis in fact.

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I must have missed the fact that you replaced my example rather than simply deleting it. Stripping away the passive-aggressive language referencing my original version would render it something like this:
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I must have missed the fact that you replaced my example rather than simply deleting it. I\\\'ve commented out your version while we hash this out.
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Stripping away the passive-aggressive language referencing my original version would render it something like this:
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* A popular urban legend has it that the human body replaces all of its cells (in some versions, all of its atoms) every seven years. While cells of the human body continually die off and are replaced with new ones, they do so at different rates, and there are exceptions such as neurons in the brain and parts of the skeletal structure. The supposed \
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* A popular urban legend has it that the human body replaces all of its cells (in some versions, all of its atoms) every seven years. While cells of the human body continually die off and are replaced with new ones, they do so at different rates, and there are exceptions such as neurons in the brain and parts of the skeletal structure. The supposed \\\"seven-year-cycle\\\" is an invention of the popular imagination and has no basis in fact.

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