Sentences with phrase «animal bodies and brains»

I'm interested in all the ways nervous systems can influence the natural and sexual selection process that shapes animal bodies and brains.

Not exact matches

With the evolutionary emergence of complex, ordered societies of occasions serving the rich and imaginative experience of strands of «presiding occasions» which exhibit «personal order «4 and perhaps consciousness — that is, animals and human beings, with their quicksilver brains and supple bodies — opportunities expand exponentially and the risks of freedom expand correlatively.

Specific regions of the brain are specialized in recognizing bodies of animals and human beings.

Anatomy confirms what behavior reveals: Octopuses and cuttlefish have larger brains, relative to body weight, than most fish and reptiles, larger on average than any animals save birds and mammals.

«These findings give us a better idea of how animals» brains couple with their bodies to move through the environment... how they manage to maneuver with incredible grace and agility almost everywhere on the planet,» said Sponberg.

The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species and specialized skin glands in monotremes that seep or ooze milk; the presence of hair or fur; specialized teeth; three minute bones within the ear; the presence of a neocortex region in the brain; and endothermic or «warm - blooded» bodies.

In most animals, nutrition involves components specialized in the regulation of nutritional supply and demand (in most animals, for example, the brain controls the needs of the body cells).

Thirty days later, however, when the protein had been cleared from their bodies, the animals» memory troubles were gone as well, and the number of newly formed brain cells was back to normal.

But the brain must receive information about water from the mouth and tongue, because animals stop drinking long before signals from the gut or blood could tell the brain that the body has been replenished, he says.

Birds and mammals have brains that are up to 10 times larger, relative to body size, than those of reptiles and other animals.

By selecting for traits that helped animals avoid them, snakes ultimately endowed us with forward - facing eyes, for example, and enlarged visual centers deep in our brains that are specialized for picking out specific features in the world around us, such as the general shape of a snake's body camouflaged among leaves.

But, relative to body size, primates have much larger brains than any other animals, and we humans, not surprisingly, have the biggest brains of all — about six times larger than you would expect for a mammal of our size.

So a long - standing riddle has been where did our ancestors get that extra energy to expand their minds as they evolved from animals with brains and bodies the size of chimpanzees?

Named Rudapithecus (the discovery was made near the village of Rudabánya, and pithecus is from the Greek for «ape»), the animal had a body and brain about the same size as those of a modern chimpanzee.

Once evolutionary relationships were factored in, the data showed that animals with big brains for their body size need a significantly higher percentage of REM sleep — supporting a role in intelligence and cognitive function.

Those drugs cause young animals» brains to develop abnormally, and a growing body of evidence suggests that they stunt children's brains.

Much of the bioethics focus has been on what would happen if an animal had enough human brain cells to think and feel like a person — but a person inside the body of a monkey, pig, rat, or mouse.

Seminar topics range from entrepreneurship and use of animal and human research subjects to neuroethics, an area of study at the CSNE that focuses on the ethical implications of technology used to reconnect the brain and body.

New MRI scans show that dolphin brains are four to five times larger for their body size when compared to another animal of similar size, according to Lori Marino, a senior lecturer in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University, and one of the world's leading dolphin experts.

Saturated fats, especially those from pastured animals and poultry, are most important in the diet to promote a happy, healthy brain and body.

Your body needs the right fats (coconut or olive oil, omega - 3s, and fats from healthy grass - fed animals) to produce new cells, manufacture hormones, coat the lungs, for optimal brain function, and many other reactions.

But the real concentration is in the liver, which makes sense because that's where the liver is stored — principally in the brain, in the liver and the kidney of most animal's bodies.

Further studies in animal models continued to demonstrate curcumin's remarkable ability to prevent the formation of malformed proteins and significantly improve the body's ability to break down existing build - up in the brain.

In animal studies, reduced inflammation following sweet potato consumption has been shown in brain tissue and nerve tissue throughout the body.

The brain like every other human tissue is made up of and utilizes protein, so we do have to eat enough protein while the brain is growing and a small amount for daily operation, but the major metabolic price of our larger brains is the large increase in the percentage of total calories used by our brains compared to animals with smaller brain to body weight ratio.

I don't want to spoil the effect of the viral videos, since they explain themselves, but when you watch the videos and the featurette together, you might be a bit creeped out at how possible the chances are for scientists to dabble once too often and create technology like shedding, i.e. putting the brain of one person or animal into the body of another person or animal.

The researchers now suggest that there is a link between how social an animal is and the size of their brains relative to their body size, meaning that dogs may have larger brains relative to their body size than cats because they are more social animals.

The most popular hypothesis about the cause of motion sickness is that humans and animals become nauseated when mixed sensory signals are transmitted to the brain, such as when the eyes tell the brain that the body is not moving, but the inner ears sense motion.2 For example, when a person is on a boat, he or she may be at ease on the top deck because the horizon provides a solid visual reference indicating that the boat is moving, which matches the sensation in the inner ears.

Enrichment can enhance the pet's brain and body and strengthen the human - animal bond.

AAHA, AVMA, AAFP, the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) strongly recommend parasite control for companion animals for many reasons, including prevention of visceral larva migrans, a condition in which parasites within a human «release larvae that migrate anywhere in the body... Organs commonly affected are the eye, brain, liver and lung, where infections can cause permanent visual, neurologic, or other tissue damage.

From proper fat and sugar handling in your body (when an animal forms a Lipoma or fatty tumor - they do not handle or «digest» fat properly...) to even neurotransmitter actions in your brain... enzymes are EVERYWHERE.

Muscle testing facilitates communication between the animal's brain and body and helps evaluate their structural, nutritional, and mental health needs.

They're all brain; and we're dependent on them Mancuso continues, «Plants distribute all along the body the functions that in animals are concentrated in single organs.

Rabies is a viral infection that is spread by a bite or saliva from an infected animal, and once the virus enters the body, it attacks your cat's nerves, spinal cord, and brain and is fatal.