Sentences with phrase «brain evolution among»
This highly specific tool use has implications for cognition and brain evolution among cetaceans and could even be considered a case of problem solving, a phenomenon difficult to document in the wild, but well established in studies of captive bottlenose dolphins [48].
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A modern banana, an ant, a bumble bee, a monkey (the ones you think we came from), and the human brain (among a million other things created) disprove the theory of evolution in just one sentence worth of their description.
Among other uses, oVert will «open new doors» for understanding brain evolution in hard - to - find species, predicts Kara Yopak of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, the neuroanatomy adviser to the project.
«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.
«Small but distinct differences among species mark evolution of human brain.»
When they compared the pace of evolution among genes expressed in the brain, however, the order was reversed.
Chimpanzees are among the closest living relatives of humans, making them a key species to study in order to understand the evolution of the human brain.