Sentences with phrase «big brains»

A study shows that birds with big brains have lower levels of a key stress hormone.

Animals with high cognitive ability also have relatively large brains, but the factors that drive evolution of big brains remain unclear.

But scientists disagree on what drove primates to evolve big brains in the first place.

Others say that although a nutrient - rich diet allows for bigger brains, it wouldn't be enough by itself to serve as a selective evolutionary pressure.

A study finds that more social animals evolve bigger brains.

A new study indicates that these insects didn't grow big brains to cope with social living; they evolved them millions of years earlier when they were solitary parasites.

But how do we manage to build such big brains?

Humans are distinguished from other species by the size of their brains, but bigger brains don't come free.

But giving birth to offspring that will develop big brains is a challenge, because the mechanics of getting a big head out of a mother's body are, well, difficult.

As if big brains and live birth are necessarily signs of superiority.

That is, primates that move around in bigger and more complex social groups require bigger brains in order to efficiently manage all of those social relations.

However, previous studies asserted that not only the diet, but complex social structures also helped create bigger brains in the primates.

Humans have an exceptionally big brain relative to their body size.

It's nice to see big brains putting their millions into improving the way real estate is bought and sold.

It's relatively easy to accept that other mammals exhibit high - level intelligence — after all, they tend to have big brains just like humans.

They have big brains inside tiny bodies and are listed among some of the smartest dog breeds in the world.

In other words, because humans have relatively big brains, their infants must be born early in development while their heads are still small enough to insure a safe delivery.

The team also found that people with a smaller visual cortex tended to have bigger brains overall, though it is not clear why.

His team previously showed that bigger brains meant smarter fish.

Ive noticed that we only have big brains writing articles and posting comments here.

They show that it didn't take a technological revolution or a particularly big brain to cross continents.

Another expense is that bigger brains take longer to grow up.

Several research studies seem to confirm that cuddling your children is not only pleasurable for both of you, but can result in happier, healthier, more curious kids with bigger brains!

In the world of big brains, humans have very few competitors.

I don't care if its an elite collection of the 100 biggest brains in the country making great decisions.

Human milk is formulated by nature to grow big brains — using fats — which human milk contains a lot of.

New study says that dogs have bigger brains relative to their body compared to cats.

So early shoppers, take note — new white and black DS Lites will come with Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain, red DS Lites will come with Big Brain Academy, pink DS Lites will have Nintendogs Labrador and Friends, and blue DS Lites will feature Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat?.

«Paleo diet: Big brains needed carbs: Importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution.»

These range from the fairly average (Luigi, Peach, Toad), to well known stars (Link, Pikachu, Captain Falcon, Kirby) to all kinds of other obscure characters (Ashley, the guy from Big Brain Academy, Nikki from SwapNote).

How did we get big brains?

You can't wage war on big brains gone haywire.

It doesn't mean that human beings are going backward or that all our hard - won adaptations, like big brains and springy legs, have lost their value.

It's also spatially aware, so it can adapt the sound to the space it's in, and it's powered by an A8 chip, which is apparently the «biggest brain ever in a speaker.»

According to her model, early in their evolution humans added cooperative breeding behaviors to their already existing advanced ape cognition, leading to a powerful combination of smarts and sociality that fueled even bigger brains, the evolution of language, and unprecedented levels of cooperation.

Archaeologists believe early hominins evolved bigger brains as they walked, took up hunting and developed more complex social structures.

Michael Muthukrishna, an economic psychologist at the London School of Economics, and his colleagues went searching for a similar link between big brains and sociality in cetaceans — the mammalian order that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

The researchers tinkered with the voltage in cell membranes of developing African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) and found that electric charge plays a role in how big the brain grows and what kind of tissue developing cells grow into.

It might be nice for the rest of us if we could attribute the successes of valedictorians to their exceptional gifts — bigger brain cells, superior IQs, and so on.

Answer your teen's Big Brain question with a «Yes!»

Does teamwork build big brains?

You also have a really big brain.

New research shows that possessed bigger brains than previously thought, even though their bodies were shorter than those of most adult humans.

So I'm not at all sure what bigger brains have to do with hominid evolution.

>> AGE «'' Kids age 10 - 13 (pre-adolescence) go through the second biggest brain development phase of their life.

In the years since the 2013 debut of human brain organoids, research groups have worked to grow bigger brain tissue clumps and more uniform structures.

«But this study is some of the hardest proof that in monkeys, the order of events was reversed — complexity came first and bigger brains came later.»

First, and just to get this point out of the way, Johnson's «killing spree» was totally meaningless unless one deems it meaningful that humans have big brains which can go haywire and often do.

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