Sentences with phrase «bigger brains as»

Later studies have honed in on traits such as bipedality, culture, language, humor, and, of course, a big brain as the unique birthright of our species.

New remains plug a 20 - million - year gap in the fossil record and suggest T. rex evolved a big brain as the first step to becoming apex predator

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He has become a regular at big - brain forums, such as the TED conference, where his message blends Al Gore's grim factual ballast with vaulting entrepreneurial can - do - ism.

With all of the intelligent changes Panda and Penguin brought to the table, it was only a matter of time before one of Google's big brained developers found a way to «smarten» search engines up enough to take a question and look at the context rather than seeing the words within the query as separate entities.

This year's World Economic Forum in Davos, a sort of brain spa for the world's movers and shakers, named rising income inequality as the biggest challenge now facing the world economy.

And, of course, she also reveals her biggest «stroke of insight» as a brain hemorrhage survivor.

Allen is a big fan of doing nothing, of daydreaming and napping as a means of engaging the reflective as opposed to the reflex brain.

In one experiment, researchers gave participants memorable trivia, such as «an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain,» then showed them computer folders with mundane names where the trivia was stored.

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So your creation myth (as a rational, nothing - but - the - facts atheist) is the following: Your deity, the Big Nothing (street names Biggie Nuttin», B. Nuttin», Biggie Nutt) created and designed all that exists from his Nuttin» brain.

Using god for science is wrong.Materials be came present after the big bang as atoms.Eventually processes started which created rock.Our planet came together with many materials, such as gold, platinum and others.When a rainforest dies when it dries up, gets buried and compresses to form coal.Oil is made from sea organisms that die and get buried.The brain uses algorithms to process information.God does not need to be included.

This statement makes you sound like someone with a big hole in the area commonly referred to as brain.

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

According to science, letting chocolate dissolve slowly in your mouth produces as big an increase in brain activity and heart rate as a passionate kiss — but the effects of the chocolate last four times longer!

A few have a football brain as big as a peanut.

The main anchor of Arsenal's «Don't spend Too big policy has always been their adherence to Fifa's FFP rules and its apparent now as it was to anyone with brain years ago that it was never going to fly with the big clubs.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

We need to press from the opponent's half to defend better, the team needs to mark as a unit and with brains, we have suffered not pressing big teams like Bayern, barca e.t.c and we suffer not marking small teams intelligently.

Egan's characters were Englishmen of every sort: swells and clinchpoops, champions as revered as Tom Cribb and Jem Belcher, personages as marginal as Jack (the Young Ruffian) Fearby and «Big» Ben Brain.

Although they are mainly just growing bigger and stronger now, there are some key elements of their development going on as the nerves in their brain which control the senses are still forming, eventually enabling them to smell, see, hear, taste and touch.

They are born with brains about half the size they'll eventually grow to, on average with 50 % of their adult brain whereas human baby's brains are only about 25 % as big as human adults» brains.

She also adds that: «Big eyes, a rosy glow, rolls of fat — our brains are hard - wired to recognize these features as appealing, compelling us to become attached to newborns and want to help them survive.»

As NASCAR began the 2014 season with the sport's biggest race, the Daytona 500, one of the questions to ask is how many of these drivers will suffer a concussion during the course of the year, how many of them will have it properly diagnosed and fully recover before they get behind the wheel, and what will be the long - term effects of these brain injuries?

Webb is a big brain of the left of the Lib Dems, as David Laws is to the right.

«Cover Up» Cuomo and the Cover Up Gang are going to lose big time in Western NY as more and more Westerner and all New Yorkers learn of the «SMOKING GUN» exposed by Steven Rattner that Schumer knew and approved that his «BRAIN» Hank Morris was a placement agent and making millions and millions of dollars in placement fee ’s

Nevertheless the fact remains that one of Labour's biggest brains has been tempted away by Osborne as the chancellor attempts to grab the political centre ground.

The former News of the World editor Piers Morgan — once described by Murdoch as having «balls bigger than his brains» — is unlikely to be at the event but wished his former boss well.

Previously, neuroanatomists thought that as brains grew larger neurons had to grow bigger as well because they had to connect over longer distances.

Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions — how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small — have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior.

Dagdeviren has big plans for the brain implant, and she is developing ideas for piezoelectric - based devices that harvest energy from outside the body, such as from the motions of knees and elbows.

That is necessary if the organoids are to grow bigger, probably the only way they can mimic fully grown brains and show how disorders such as autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia unfold.

But intelligence does matter to the tropical fish, as big - brained guppies outwit predators to live longer than slower witted peers.

The eyes are so big that each eyeball, at 16 millimetres in diameter, takes up the same volume as the entire brain.

As a consequence, neural progenitor cells derived from these kids proliferate faster than controls, explaining the big brain phenotype.»

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

Schürmann also came across as an excellent team - player — a characteristic that's essential to big, integrative projects like Blue Brain — and quickly learned more about neuroscience.

Grafman, an affable, gentle man with large eyes, is using his scanners to peek into brains as they wrestle with big questions such as politics and religion.

They also discussed creating a map of roughly half of the human brain's 100,000 km of axons, the threadlike extensions that project from neurons, as the NBO's first big project.

One of the biggest questions in the field of neuroscience is how the brain rewires itself in response to changing behavioral conditions — an ability known as plasticity.

Using a technology called VAST, which can automatically label individual neurons, glia, and blood vessels different colors, as well as smaller structures such as dendrites and mitochondria, the researchers analyzed the contents of three cylindrical chunks of brain tissue, each no bigger than grains of salt.

Once early hominins had boosted their metabolism and grown bigger brains, he says, natural selection would have favored not only fatter individuals, but also smaller guts and other energy - saving adaptations, such as cooking and efficient walking.

As a general rule, mammal species with big bodies tend to have big brains.

They concluded that Neanderthal babies had brains as big as those of modern babies.

«As we develop drugs that work by targeting the primary brain pathology in schizophrenia, it is likely that the differences between patients are going to play a bigger role in determining optimal treatment,» commented Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

The new results indicate that as brains grew larger and entered the world in a less developed state, it became increasingly advantageous to relax the genetic control of their organization, essentially providing a bigger, blanker canvas for adapting and learning.

He and colleagues have for years looked at the differences between big - brained birds, such as crows and parrots, and those with smaller brains, such as chickens and quails.

Under those specifications, the hypothetical human brain grew as big as ancient humans» brains are thought to have grown, and the slow growth rate matched that of modern human brains.

«In living higher primates you find the opposite: the brain is very big, and the olfactory bulb is very small, presumably because as their vision got better their sense of smell got worse.»

The researchers also received detailed instructions on how to grapple with a major technical challenge: Electrodes in patients» brains often detect pulses from two or more nearby neurons at the same time, which may show up in the computer as one big signal.

As part of your «Nine big brain questions» special (3 April, p 26), Celeste Biever made a reference to the familiar problem that we «have no way of proving we are not the only self - aware individuals in a world of unaware «zombies»».