Sentences with phrase «brain evolution involved»
Far from a way to engineer smarter rodents, the work suggests that human brain evolution involved a major upgrade to cells called astrocytes.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
«We've known other people who have looked at genes involved in brain size evolution, tested them out and done the same kinds of experiments we've done and come up dry.»
If our results are confirmed in future studies, it would be a unique demonstration of convergent evolution of intelligence, involving the same neurotransmitter receptors despite the widely different brain structures of birds and mammals.»
A new examination of the dolphin genome identifies genes involved in the evolution of large brains.
New research suggests that advances in the production of Early Stone Age tools had less to do with the evolution of language and more to do with the brain networks involved in modern piano playing.
«The significance of this study is that we're going to see more comparative studies of macromolecular concentrations — such as differences in proteins and lipids — which reveal things that can't be read out directly» from the genome, says Todd Preuss, a neuroscientist at Emory University who specializes in the evolution of the human brain and who was not involved in the study.
An excerpt from my book, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change which involves paleoanthropology, paleoclimate, and considerations from neurobiology and evolutionary biology.